A. Payment of leave-time benefits in excess of an amount which results, when combined with workmen's compensation weekly benefits, in an injured state or university worker receiving in any month more than one hundred percent of that workman's monthly base salary is not permitted; provided that payment of accrued vacation leave time and compensating leave-time benefits may be permitted without regard to this limitation where the workman is finally determined to be permanently totally disabled or resigns his state or university employment.
B. As used in this section:
(1) "leave time" includes time accrued as sick leave, vacation leave and compensating leave; and
(2) "monthly base salary" means the full monthly salary to be paid the employee if he had worked as scheduled for the entire month, as established by the state personnel board's official salary schedule, or the official salary schedule of any state agency or university in effect during the last pay period during which the employee worked, exclusive of all overtime pay and the value of all accrued leave time and all fringe benefits of any kind.
C. The state personnel board shall send a copy of this law to all state agencies and universities which have salaried employees who do not fall under the jurisdiction of the state personnel board.
History: Laws 1987, ch. 258, ยง 1.
Structure 2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 10 - Public Officers and Employees
Article 7 - Compensation and Working Conditions Generally
Section 10-7-2 - Salaries and wages; rules; direct deposit.
Section 10-7-3 - [Inapplicability of act.]
Section 10-7-4 - Group insurance; cafeteria plan; contributions from public funds.
Section 10-7-4.1 - Children, youth and families department; group life insurance.
Section 10-7-5 - [Premiums; deduction from salaries.]
Section 10-7-5.1 - Local public bodies; group health and group life insurance.
Section 10-7-6 - [Repeal and saving clause.]
Section 10-7-7 - [Old-age benefits under Social Security Act.]
Section 10-7-8 - Annuities and deferred compensation plans; reductions from gross salaries.
Section 10-7-9 - Minimum salary rate.
Section 10-7-10 - Accumulated sick leave; payment of certain excess amounts.
Section 10-7-11 - Accumulated sick leave prior to retirement; payment of certain excess amounts.
Section 10-7-12 - Government cost savings incentive award.
Section 10-7-13 - Leave; coordination with workmen's compensation benefits.
Section 10-7-14 - Short title.
Section 10-7-15 - Definitions.
Section 10-7-16 - Cafeteria plan; optional.
Section 10-7-17 - Salary reduction agreements.
Section 10-7-18 - Status of salary reduction.
Section 10-7-19 - Applicability to deferred compensation plans.
Section 10-7-20 - Qualified transportation fringe benefit.
Section 10-7-21 - Undercover agents; life insurance benefits.