Immediately prior to retirement from state service, an employee of the state who has accumulated six hundred hours of unused sick leave shall be entitled to be paid for additional unused sick leave at a rate equal to fifty percent of his hourly wage multiplied by the number of hours of unused sick leave over six hundred hours, not to exceed four hundred hours of such sick leave. History: Laws 1983, ch. 150, § 2. Judiciary's paid time off policies conflict with financial restrictions imposed by the legislature and therefore lack authorization under existing law. — The legislature has imposed specific financial restrictions on payouts to all state employees for unused sick leave, limiting both the number of hours and the rate at which employees may be compensated, and therefore the New Mexico judicial branch personnel rules, which permit greater payouts for unused paid time off than are authorized by statute, are in conflict with public policy determinations and financial restrictions imposed by the legislature and therefore lack authorization under existing law. 2024 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 24-07.
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