Group Health and
Hospitalization Coverage
The City provides group health and hospitalization
insurance for regular full-time employees.
Employees may purchase dependent coverage through
the City’s group health plan.
Life
Insurance
The City provides a life insurance policy to all
regular full-time employees of two times annual
salary (rounded to next highest thousand) with a
maximum benefit of up to
$200,000. The benefit is reduced at age 70.
Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
The City
provides an accidental death and dismemberment
insurance policy to all regular full-time employees
of two times annual salary (rounded to next highest
thousand) with a maximum benefit of up to $200,000.
The benefit is reduced at age 70.
Dependent Life Insurance
The City
provides a life insurance policy to the dependent(s)
of all regular full-time employees of $2,000 for
spouse and children 6 months and over, and of $200
for children from birth to 6 months.
Short-term
Disability
The City provides a short-term disability plan to
all regular full-time employees. The plan applies
to injuries and illness which occur outside the
workplace. Employees receive a benefit amount of
60% of their weekly salary, up to a maximum benefit
of $700 per week. Benefits begin after a 7 day
waiting period and may last up to 26 weeks upon
medical certification.
Retirement
Each regular employee who is expected to work for
the City more than 1,000 hours annually will join
the North Carolina Local Governmental Employees’
Retirement System (NCLGERS) as a condition of
employment starting the first day of employment. A
six percent (6%) contribution is deducted from pay
for the retirement plan and the City contributes an
actuarially determined amount. An employee becomes
vested in the retirement plan after 5 years of
contributing service.
401(k)
The City contributes 5% toward a 401(k) supplemental
retirement plan for all regular employees
contributing to the NCLGERS. Employees are
immediately vested in the 401(k) plan. Employees
may elect to make voluntary contributions to this
plan up to the annual dollar limit.
Vacation
Leave
Paid vacation is granted to all regular full-time
employees. Vacation hours are earned on a bi-weekly
basis. The hours granted per year for full-time
employees are as follows:
| Years of
Service |
Hours Accrued
Per Year
Regular Employees
|
Hours
Accrued Per Year
Firefighters |
Less than 5 years |
96 |
144.00 |
5 through 9 years |
120 |
170.40 |
10 through 14 years |
144 |
204.48 |
15 through 19 years |
168 |
238.56 |
20 plus years |
192 |
272.64 |
Sick Leave
Regular full-time employees are granted 96 paid sick
leave hours per year and full-time firefighters are
granted 136.32 hours per year. Sick leave hours are
earned on a bi-weekly basis.
Holidays
Regular full-time employees will be granted 11 or 12
paid holidays depending on the year and date on
which the holiday falls.
Longevity
The City offers longevity pay to recognize and
reward the total years of service as a regular
full-time employee. Longevity pay is a lump sum
payment given once a year. Payments are made in the
following amounts/rates:
Years of Service |
Longevity Amount/Rate |
5 through 9 years |
2% of annual salary |
10 through 14 years |
3% of annual salary |
15 through 19 years |
4% of annual salary |
20 through 24 years |
5% of annual salary |
25 years and over |
6% of annual salary |
Employee
Assistance Program
The City of Sanford provides employees and family
members with confidential counseling to help resolve
problems that may impact their work or personal
lives.
This confidential counseling service is
available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at no cost
to employees or family members for up to 5 sessions
per situation per year.
Tuition Assistance Program
Tuition
assistance is available to those regular full-time
employees who have completed the initial
probationary period and wish to further their
education and training. Employees may receive
financial assistance up to $2,000 per fiscal year
for courses relating to their present job or to a
future position with the City of Sanford.
Flexible
Spending Accounts
Regular full-time employees are offered the option
of participating in flexible spending accounts which
provides a way to save federal, state, and social
security taxes on eligible health and dependent care
expenses. Employees fund the account through
payroll deductions and are reimbursed for qualified
expenses through the use of a debit card or
submission of a claim form.
Credit Union
Employees have the option of joining the NC Local
Government Employees’ Credit Union. In order to
retain membership in the Credit Union, employees
must have a minimum of $25 on deposit in a share
(savings) account or $100 in a checking account.
Parental School
Leave
The City provides 4 hours of parental school leave
per calendar year (for grade school children).
Hours may be used to attend school functions, eat
lunch with child, attend parent/teacher conferences,
etc. Leave may be paid or unpaid, if the employee
chooses to use any accumulated personal or vacation
time.
Family and
Medical Leave
The City provides up to 12 weeks paid/unpaid
job-protected leave per year to eligible employees
for certain family and medical reasons and certain
military family reasons; and up to 26 weeks of
military family leave for “military caregiver
leave”.
Military
Leave
Available to employees who are in the uniformed
services for leave due to active duty, active duty
for training, inactive duty training (such as
drills), funeral honors duty performed by National
Guard and reserve members, as well as the period for
which a person is absent from a position of
employment for the purpose of an examination to
determine fitness to perform any such duty. Leave
may be paid or unpaid, if the employee chooses to
use any accumulated vacation time.
Civil
Leave
The City provides paid leave for jury duty. The City
pays the difference between court stipend and
regular day’s wages.
Personal
Leave
The City provides regular full-time employees 14
hours of paid personal leave per calendar year (7
hours if hired July 1st or later). Hours
may used in a maximum of 3-hour blocks depending on
department mission needs.
Social
Security
The City and the employee each contribute 7.65% of
gross salary.
Workers’ Compensation
All City employees are covered by the North Carolina
Workers’ Compensation Act. This act covers those
employees who suffer injuries as a result of an
accident while performing work related duties.
Responsibility for claiming compensation under the
Workers’ Compensation Act is on the injured
employee.
