ARTICLE 8 AS AMENDED
RELATING TO
LONGEVITY PAYMENTS
SECTION 1. Section 36-4-17.1 of the General Laws in Chapter
36-4 entitled "Merit
System" is hereby
amended to read as follows:
36-4-17.1.
Longevity payments. -- A state employee in the
classified or unclassified
service who terminates employment and is subsequently
reemployed by the state, notwithstanding
any rule, regulation, or provision of the general laws to
the contrary, shall be eligible to receive an
aggregate longevity increase for the period of initial
employment and subsequent employment.
The provisions of this section shall be applied
retroactively to those persons reemployed prior to
June 1, 1980, and thereafter.
36-4-17.2.
Future longevity payments. – Beginning on July
1, 2011, notwithstanding
any rule, regulation, or provision of the public laws or
general laws to the contrary, there shall be
no further longevity increases for state employees;
provided, however, for employees with
longevity provisions pursuant to a collective bargaining
agreement in effect on June 1, 2011,
longevity increases shall cease beginning on July 1, 2011 or
beginning upon the expiration of the
applicable collective bargaining agreement, whichever occurs
later. To the extent an employee
has previously accrued longevity payments, the employee shall
continue to receive the same
longevity percentage in effect on June 30, 2011, or in the case
of an employee with longevity
provisions pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement in
effect on June 1, 2011, the same
longevity percentage in effect on June 30, 2011 or upon the
expiration of the applicable collective
bargaining agreement, whichever occurs later.
SECTION 2. Section 16-59-7.2 of the General Laws in Chapter
16-59 entitled "Board of
Governors for Higher
Education" is hereby amended to read as follows:
16-59-7.2.
Longevity payments -- Nonclassified employees.
-- (a) The non-classified
employees of the board of governors for higher education,
except for faculty employees and
except for non-classified employees already receiving
longevity increases, shall be entitled to a
longevity payment in the amount of five percent (5%) of base
salary after ten (10) years of
service and increasing to a total of ten percent (10%) of
base salary after twenty (20) years of
service. The provisions of this section will apply only to
employees under the grade of nineteen
(19). The longevity payments
shall not be included in base salary.
(b) The board of
governors is authorized to promulgate regulations implementing the
provisions of this section.
(c) Beginning on July
1, 2011, notwithstanding any rule, regulation, or provision of the
public laws or general laws to the contrary, there shall be
no further longevity increases for
employees of the board of governors; provided, however, for
employees with longevity
provisions pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement in
effect on June 1, 2011, longevity
increases shall cease beginning on July 1, 2011 or beginning
upon the expiration of the applicable
collective bargaining agreement, whichever occurs later. To the
extent an employee has
previously accrued longevity payments, the amount of the
longevity payment earned by the
employee for the last pay period in June, 2011 shall be added
to the employee’s base salary as of
June 30, 2011, or in the case of an employee with
longevity provisions pursuant to a collective
bargaining agreement in effect on June 1, 2011, the amount of
the longevity payment earned by
the employee for the latter of the last pay period in
June or the last pay period prior to the
expiration of the applicable collective bargaining agreement
shall be added to the employee’s
base salary as of June 30, 2011 or upon the expiration of
the applicable collective bargaining
agreement, whichever occurs later.
SECTION 3. Section 16-60-7.2 of the General Laws in Chapter
16-60 entitled “Board of
Regents for Elementary and
Secondary Education” is hereby amended to read as follows:
16-60-7.2.
Longevity payments -- Nonclassified employees.
-- (a) The non-classified
employees of the board of regents for elementary and secondary
education, except for non-
classified employees already receiving longevity increases,
shall be entitled to a longevity
payment in the amount of five percent (5%) of base salary
after ten (10) years of service and
increasing to a total of ten percent (10%) of base salary after
twenty (20) years of service. The
provisions of this section shall apply only to employees under
the grade of nineteen (19). The
longevity payments shall not be included in base salary.
(b) The board of
regents is authorized to promulgate regulations implementing the
provisions of this section.
(c) Beginning on July
1, 2011, notwithstanding any rule, regulation, or provision of the
public laws or general laws to the contrary, there shall be
no further longevity increases for
employees of the board of regents for elementary and secondary
education; provided, however,
for employees with longevity provisions pursuant to a
collective bargaining agreement in effect
on June 1, 2011, longevity increases shall cease
beginning on July 1, 2011 or beginning upon the
expiration of the applicable collective bargaining agreement,
whichever occurs later. To the
extent an employee has previously accrued longevity
payments, the amount of the longevity
payment earned by the employee for the last pay period in
June, 2011 shall be added to the
employee’s base salary as of June 30, 2011, or in the case of an
employee with longevity
provisions pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement in
effect on June 1, 2011, the amount of
the longevity payment earned by the employee for the
latter of the last pay period in June or the
last pay period prior to the expiration of the applicable
collective bargaining agreement shall be
added to the employee’s base salary as of June 30, 2011 or
upon the expiration of the applicable
collective bargaining agreement, whichever occurs later.
SECTION 4. Section 16-61-8.1 of the General Laws in Chapter
16-61 entitled "Rhode
16-61-8.1.
Longevity payments -- Nonclassified employees.
-- (a) Non-classified
employees of the
employees already receiving longevity increases, shall be
entitled to a longevity payment in the
amount of five percent (5%) of base salary after ten (10)
years of service and increasing in a total
of ten percent (10%) of base salary after twenty (20)
years of service. The provisions of this
section shall apply only to employees under the grade of
nineteen (19). The longevity payments
shall not be included in base salary.
(b) The telecommunications
authority is authorized to promulgate regulations
implementing the provisions of this section.
(c) Beginning on July
1, 2011, notwithstanding any rule, regulation, or provision of the
public laws or general laws to the contrary, there shall be
no further longevity increases for
employees of the
employees with longevity provisions pursuant to a collective
bargaining agreement in effect on
June 1, 2011, longevity increases shall cease
beginning on July 1, 2011 or beginning upon the
expiration of the applicable collective bargaining agreement,
whichever occurs later. To the
extent an employee has previously accrued longevity
payments, the amount of the longevity
payment earned by the employee for the last pay period in
June, 2011 shall be added to the
employee’s base salary as of June 30, 2011, or in the case of an
employee with longevity
provisions pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement in
effect on June 1, 2011, the amount of
the longevity payment earned by the employee for the
latter of the last pay period in June or the
last pay period prior to the expiration of the applicable
collective bargaining agreement shall be
added to the employee’s base salary as of June 30, 2011 or
upon the expiration of the applicable
collective bargaining agreement, whichever occurs later.
SECTION 5. Chapter 36-6 of the General Laws entitled
"Salaries and Traveling
Expenses" is hereby amended
by adding thereto the following section:
36-6-22.
Longevity payments. -- Beginning on July 1,
2011, notwithstanding any rule,
regulation, or provision of the public laws or general laws to
the contrary, there shall be no
further longevity increases for officers, secretaries, and
employees of the legislative branch, the
judicial branch, the office of the governor, the office of the
lieutenant governor, the department of
state, the department of the attorney general, and the
treasury department; provided, however, for
employees with longevity provisions pursuant to a collective
bargaining agreement in effect on
June 1, 2011, longevity increases shall cease
beginning on July 1, 2011 or beginning upon the
expiration of the applicable collective bargaining agreement,
whichever occurs later. To the
extent an employee has previously accrued longevity
payments, the employee shall continue to
receive the same longevity percentage in effect on June 30,
2011, or in the case of an employee
with longevity provisions pursuant to a collective
bargaining agreement in effect on June 1, 2011,
the same longevity percentage in effect on June 30, 2011
or upon the expiration of the applicable
collective bargaining agreement, whichever occurs later.
SECTION 6. Title 36 of the General Laws entitled
"Public Officers and Employees" is
hereby amended by adding thereto the following chapter:
CHAPTER
16.2
QUASI
PUBLIC CORPORATIONS – LONGEVITY
36-16.2-1.
Longevity payments – Quasi public employees. - (a)
Beginning on July 1,
2011, notwithstanding any rule, regulation, or
provision of the public laws or general laws to the
contrary, there shall be no further longevity increases for
employees of the quasi- public
corporations; provided, however, for employees with longevity
provisions pursuant to a collective
bargaining agreement in effect on June 1, 2011, longevity
increases shall cease beginning on July
1, 2011, or beginning upon the expiration of the
applicable collective bargaining agreement,
whichever occurs later. To the extent an employee has
previously accrued longevity payments,
the amount of the longevity payment earned by the
employee for the last pay period in June, 2011
shall be added to the employee’s base salary as of June 30,
2011, or in the case of an employee
with longevity provisions pursuant to a collective
bargaining agreement in effect on June 1, 2011,
the amount of the longevity payment earned by the
employee for the latter of the last pay period
in June or the last pay period prior to the expiration
of the applicable collective bargaining
agreement shall be added to the employee’s base salary as of
June 30, 2011 or upon the expiration
of the applicable collective bargaining agreement,
whichever occurs later.
(b)
For purposes of this section "quasi-public corporation" means a body
corporate and
politic acting as a public corporation, which has been
organized pursuant to law and granted
certain powers, rights and privileges by the general laws,
while exhibiting a distinct legal
existence from the state, and not constituting a department of
the state government, in order to
perform a governmental function.
SECTION 7.
This Article shall take effect upon passage.