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Statutes > Connecticut > Title5 > Chap067 > Sec5-213Sec. 5-213. Longevity payments. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 5-212, each employee in the state service who has completed not less than ten years of state service and who is not included in any collective bargaining unit, except those employees whose compensation is prescribed by statute, shall receive semiannual lump-sum longevity payments based on service completed as of the first day of April and the first day of October of each year, as follows:
(1) An employee who has completed ten or more years but less than fifteen years of state service shall receive seventy-five dollars or an amount determined in accordance with the longevity rate schedule established for his class of position by the Commissioner of Administrative Services, whichever is greater, except that a managerial employee shall receive an amount determined in accordance with the longevity rate schedule established for his class of position by said commissioner;
(2) An employee who has completed fifteen or more years but less than twenty years of state service shall receive one hundred fifty dollars or an amount determined in accordance with the longevity rate schedule established for his class of position by the Commissioner of Administrative Services, whichever is greater, except that a managerial employee shall receive an amount determined in accordance with the longevity rate schedule established for his class of position by said commissioner;
(3) An employee who has completed twenty or more years but less than twenty-five years of state service shall receive two hundred twenty-five dollars or an amount determined in accordance with the longevity rate schedule established for the employee's class of position by the Commissioner of Administrative Services, whichever is greater, except that a managerial employee shall receive an amount determined in accordance with the longevity rate schedule established for the employee's class of position by said commissioner;
(4) An employee who has completed twenty-five or more years of state service shall receive three hundred dollars or an amount determined in accordance with the longevity rate schedule established for his class of position by the Commissioner of Administrative Services, whichever is greater, except that a managerial employee shall receive an amount determined in accordance with the longevity rate schedule established for his class of position by said commissioner.
(b) The semiannual longevity lump-sum payments shall be made on the last regular pay day in April and October of each year, except that a retired employee shall receive, in the month immediately following retirement, a prorated payment based on the proportion of the six-month period served prior to the effective date of his retirement.
(c) Part-time, seasonal or intermittent state service shall be credited as state service for the purposes of this section when such part-time, seasonal or intermittent service, accumulated, totals the calendar years herein above specified.
(d) The term of employment in state service shall be construed to include, in the case of an employee of the radiological maintenance and calibration facility, the term of his service from the date upon which he began work at said facility under individual contract with the Commissioner of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, upon receipt of data satisfactory to the Commissioner of Administrative Services showing the time such employee worked for said facility. All records of the state which show the length of service in the employment of the state of any employee of said facility shall be maintained to show the length of such service and the total time of state service.
(1967, P.A. 657, S. 22; 1969, P.A. 658, S. 5; P.A. 74-138, S. 1, 2; P.A. 78-231, S. 6, 10; 78-240, S. 2; 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 79-621, S. 9, 24; P.A. 80-483, S. 15, 186; P.A. 81-457, S. 7; P.A. 82-388, S. 1, 3; P.A. 89-34, S. 1, 5; P.A. 90-230, S. 11, 101; P.A. 00-68, S. 8; P.A. 04-219, S. 4.)
History: 1969 act added Subsec. (c) re part-time, seasonal or intermittent service; P.A. 74-138 provided for prorated payment for recently retired employees in Subsec. (b) and removed similar provision from Subsec. (c); P.A. 78-231 included managerial employees in provision for longevity payments, effective October 1, 1983; P.A. 78-240 added Subsec. (d) re employees of radiological maintenance and calibration facility; P.A. 78-303 authorized substitution of commissioner of administrative services for commissioner of personnel and administration in Subsec. (d); P.A. 79-621 specified applicability of provisions to those not covered by collective bargaining in Subsec. (a), deleted references to determination of payment as percentage of salary increase in Subdivs. (1) to (4), inclusive, replacing such references with determination according to rate schedules established by administrative services commissioner or director of personnel and labor relations and including provisions for managerial employees; P.A. 80-483 made technical changes; P.A. 81-457 amended Subsec. (a) to allow for the continuance of longevity payments to managerial employees, which had been scheduled for termination as of October 1, 1983; P.A. 82-388 amended Subsec. (b) to specify that the longevity payments shall be made on the first regular payday following April 23 and October 24 of each year; P.A. 89-34 substituted "last regular pay day in April and October" for "April 23 and October 24" and provided that retired employees shall receive their payments in the month following retirement instead of on the first regular pay day following the twenty-fourth of such month; P.A. 90-230 corrected a reference to the director of emergency management in Subsec. (d); P.A. 00-68 amended Subsec. (a)(3) to substitute "Commissioner of Administrative Services" for "Director of Personnel and Labor Relations" and "the employee's" for "his"; P.A. 04-219 amended Subsec. (d) to substitute Commissioner of Emergency Management and Homeland Security for Director of Emergency Management, effective January 1, 2005.
Statute cannot be construed as prohibiting a retiree from receiving more than two longevity payments in last year of state service prior to retirement. Plaintiffs were entitled to have their final, prorated longevity payments added directly to their final year salaries in the calculation of their base salaries. 284 C. 149.
