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ARTICLE 23 POST EMPLOYMENT HEALTH CARE SAVINGS PLAN 23.1 Purpose The purpose of this program is to help employees defray some of the costs of post employment health insurance premiums using pre-tax dollars. 23.2 Effective Date Participation in the Post Employment Health Care Savings Plan (PEHCSP) is available to full- and part-time regular employees who are members of the AFSCME -unit and who meet the eligibility requirements described below on their termination date. For the purposes of the PEHCSP, the termination date is the last date an employee performed services for the City. This includes, but is not limited to, the employee's retirement date. This PEHCSP is effective November 1, 2008. 23.3 Eligibility Requirements In order to be eligible for participation in the PEHCSP, the following terms and conditions must be met: 1. The individual must be a regular employee and a current member of the AFSCME bargaining unit. 2. The employee must have been continuously employed by the City of Ramsey for ten years. There shall be no partial years and no aggregation of separate periods of employment. 23.4 Benefits Under the PEHCSP, eligible employees will contribute 100% of eligible sick leave hours to the PEHCSP. City employees are eligible to accrue a maximum of 960 hours of sick leave and may receive a percentage of the 960 hours of sick leave depending upon their years of service. For the purposes of this PEHCSP, as per Article 22 of the AFSCME labor agreement, "eligible sick leave hours" is 33% of unused accumulated sick leave after 10 years of continuous employment; 35% of unused accumulated sick leave after 15 years of continuous employment; 37% of unused accumulated sick leave after 20 years of continuous employment; and 40% of unused accumulated sick leave after 25 years of continuous employment. Per Article 22 of the AFSCME labor agreement, severance pay shall not be available in any sum to an employee if that employee is discharged for just cause, or if the employee voluntarily terminates his or her employment without giving the employer fourteen (14) days written notice.