§ 64-3. Benefits.

A. 

When an employee is ordered to active duty and the employee's annual "base salary" as of the employee's first day of active duty is greater than the annual "base pay" the employee will receive in his or her current pay grade in the military (no "additional entitlements" are to be included in this calculation), the difference between the two annual sums shall be divided by 26, and the employee or his or her designated family member or agent shall receive that amount on the employer's regular pay days for up to 26 pay periods or until the employee is discharged from active military service, whichever occurs first.

B. 

When an employee is ordered to active duty and he or she is enrolled in a family employee medical plan, the Town shall continue to pay the employee's medical plan premiums in order to keep the family medical plan in effect during the employee's absence, for up to two years.

C. 

When an employee is ordered to active duty and he or she has family members who may benefit from an employee benefit fund [for example: the current (3/2006) CSEA Employee Benefit Fund; a/k/a: "Package 7"], the Town shall continue to pay the employee's premiums for the employee benefit fund in order to keep those benefits in effect during the employee's absence, for up to two years.

D. 

If the employer makes any changes to the benefits described herein during an employee's absence due to military service (for example: change in medical benefits plan, changing or dropping of an employee benefit fund, etc.), it shall be the policy of the employer to treat the deployed employee as if the deployed soldier was here at work. The employer shall provide or retract such new or amended benefits from the deployed employee in the same manner the employer has done to all of its other employees in the same class as the deployed employee.

E. 

Any employee ordered to active duty shall receive 10 vacation days (the equivalent thereof in vacation hours) on their next payroll cycle following their notification to the employer. In the event the employee does not deploy, the Town may recoup these 10 days via deductions from the employee's then-existing or future vacation or sick leave accruals.

F. 

The effective date of this legislation shall be January 1, 2006. The benefits authorized and provided to any deployed employee under this chapter shall apply retroactively from January 1, 2006.