Any affected employee who receives severance benefits pursuant to the State Government Reduction-in-Force and Severance Benefits Act shall execute a separation agreement with the employing agency, on forms to be prescribed by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services. The forms shall comply with applicable federal laws and may include but not be limited to the following elements:

1. Agreement by the affected employee that the receipt of the benefits is in lieu of continued employment with the agency or other severance benefits related to the current reduction-in-force;

2. Agreement by the affected employee that, to the extent allowed by federal or state law, respectively, the affected employee releases the State of Oklahoma and the agency from all claims, liabilities, demands and causes of action known or unknown, fixed or contingent, equitable, legal or administrative, except unemployment insurance;

3. Agreement by the affected employee that, to the extent allowed by federal or state law, respectively, the affected employee releases the State of Oklahoma and the agency from any claim or cause of action which might arise under federal or state laws governing the employment relationship; and

4. Agreement by the affected employee that the affected employee knows and understands that the receipt of severance benefits is in exchange, to the extent allowed by federal or state law, for any rights the affected employee may have had to:

a.continued employment with any agency, and

b.future employment with the agency from which separated for a period of one (1) year from the date of the agreement, provided that nothing in this subparagraph shall prohibit an appointing authority of any agency from employing an affected employee who has received a severance benefit. If an affected employee is reemployed by the agency from which separated as a result of a reduction-in-force within one (1) year of separation, the affected employee shall repay all severance benefits received pursuant to the State Government Reduction-in-Force and Severance Benefits Act on a proportional basis. The repayment amount of the severance benefits received by or paid on behalf of the affected employee shall be reduced one-three-hundred-sixty-fifths (1/365) for each day after the separation of the affected employee, provided that any education voucher credit benefits shall not include agency contributions.

The provisions of this section shall not prohibit any affected employee from accepting severance benefits from more than one agency during employment with the State of Oklahoma.

Added by Laws 1997, c. 287, § 8, eff. July 1, 1997. Amended by Laws 2002, c. 347, § 10, eff. Nov. 1, 2002; Laws 2003, c. 212, § 15, eff. July 1, 2003; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 886.