(A) All employees of the village shall be granted ten and one half days of holiday with pay per year; such holidays as they apply to police officers being a matter of compensation only. The holidays so granted are as follows.
(1) New Year’s Day.
(2) Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
(3) President’s Day.
(4) One-half day on the Friday preceding Easter commencing at noon.
(5) Memorial Day.
(6) Independence Day.
(7) Labor Day.
(8) Thanksgiving Day.
(9) Day after Thanksgiving.
(10) Christmas Eve Day.
(11) Christmas Day.
(B) All holidays shall be observed on a day other than Saturday or Sunday, and any holiday that occurs on a Saturday or Sunday shall, at the direction of the Village Manager, be observed on the preceding Friday or the following Monday. Should any administrative employee work the day or the half day that the holiday is observed, she or he shall be paid for such time worked at the rate of two times her or his normal hourly rate. Should any police officer be on duty during the time the holiday is observed, except as otherwise provided in division (C), she or he shall be compensated for the time worked at the rate of two and one-half times her or his normal hourly rate. Should any police officer, because it is her or his regularly scheduled off day, be off-duty during the time the holiday is observed, she or he shall be compensated for that time at the rate of two times her or his normal hourly rate. Should any employee, during the time a holiday is observed, be on an earned and scheduled paid vacation, said employee shall receive additional compensation in the amount of her or his regular rate of pay for such holiday time observed. The foregoing policies as to compensation for police officers shall also apply to any police department dispatcher whose regular work schedule is the same as that of police officers.
(C) If the day of Christmas Eve or the day of Christmas falls on a Saturday or Sunday, any member of the Police Department who is on duty on that holiday shall receive holiday compensation at the rate provided in division (B), except such compensation shall be for the day the police officer is on duty rather than the preceding Friday or following Monday.
(D) As to those holidays granted by § 35.02(A), and if approved by the Chief of Police, police officers and those dispatchers whose regular work schedule is the same as that of police officers, and as to four of those holidays on which the officer or dispatcher was on duty, may elect to receive compensatory time off in lieu of the extra holiday monetary compensation, subject, however, to the limitation on accumulated unused time off as provided in § 36.05(B) and to the prohibition that it will not result in overtime for any Police Department personnel.
(Ord. C-460, passed 4-10-78; Am. Ord. C-482, passed 4-9-79; Am. Ord. C-551, passed 4-11-83; Am. Ord. C-563, passed 4-9-84; Am. Ord. C-617, passed 4-16-87; Am. Ord. C-660, passed 6-12-89; Am. Ord. C-709, passed 7-8-91; Am. Ord. C-730, passed 4-13-91; Am. Ord. 1998-1, passed 1-12-98; Am. Ord. 2014-05, passed 3-10-14)