Public employees: unused leave credit.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Human Resources, with respect to each state officer and employee who either is excluded from the definition of state employee by specified law, or is a nonelected officer or employee of the executive branch of government who is not a member of the civil service, to provide for vacation, sick leave, annual leave, and bereavement leave benefits, including the lump-sum payment of any amount of accumulated leave. Existing regulations of the department authorize, upon an annual determination by the department whether or not a buy-back will be offered, prescribed buy-back of unused leave credit by managerial, supervisory, confidential, excluded, and related employees, including annual caps of 80 hours for managerial employees and 40 hours for nonmanagerial employees. This bill would authorize certain of those employees, upon the department's annual determination, to elect annually to be paid at their regular rate of pay for up to 80 hours of eligible unused leave credit. The bill would require the department to determine the date of eligibility and conditions of buy-back and the period for application.