(a) Full-time non-bargaining members of the Fire Department who work a forty-hour week shall be entitled to the following holidays:
New Year’s Day | Labor Day |
Good Friday | Thanksgiving Day |
Memorial Day | Day after Thanksgiving Day |
Independence Day | Christmas Day |
Four personal holidays after the first anniversary of employment | |
(b) (1) All shift non-bargaining employees of the Police Department shall be granted an eight-hour period for each of the following holidays:
New Year’s Day | Labor Day |
Good Friday | Thanksgiving Day |
Memorial Day | Day after Thanksgiving Day |
Independence Day | Christmas Day |
Three personal holidays after the first anniversary of employment | |
(2) In addition to the above, all shift non-bargaining employees shall be compensated for hours worked at a rate of double (two times) their hourly rate of pay when they work Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day, and one and one-half of their hourly rate for the remaining six holidays.
(c) Full-time non-bargaining members of the Police Department who work a forty-hour week shall be entitled to the following holidays:
New Year’s Day | Labor Day |
Good Friday | Thanksgiving Day |
Memorial Day | Day after Thanksgiving Day |
Independence Day | Christmas Day |
Four personal holidays after the first anniversary of employment | |
(d) All other full-time non-bargaining Municipal Utilities employees shall be entitled to the following holidays:
New Year’s Day | Labor Day |
Good Friday | Thanksgiving Day |
Memorial Day | Day after Thanksgiving Day |
Independence Day | Christmas Eve |
Christmas Day | |
Four personal holidays after the first anniversary of employment | |
(e) The Mayor shall receive two personal holidays in addition to the four personal holidays provided in this division.
(f) For employees included in subsections (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) hereof, if a holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday shall be the holiday. If a holiday falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be the holiday.
(g) Personal Holidays.
(1) A “personal holiday”, as authorized and allowed in this section, is defined as time off similar to other holidays in which the employee may designate the day or time off as a holiday. Such personal holiday is authorized only when the employee has given his/her/their supervisor at least seventy-two hours’ notice prior to the taking of such holiday. The department head may, at his /her/their discretion, schedule such personal holidays in a manner which will maintain effective and efficient operation of the department. Such personal holidays may not be accumulated, with the exception of the non-bargaining unit employees in the Municipal Utilities Department.
(2) Non-bargaining unit employees shall be compensated for all personal holidays not taken prior to December 31 of each year no later than the end of January immediately following at the rate of pay in effect the preceding December.
(h) Upon retirement or termination of employment with the City, a non-bargaining employee shall be compensated for any unused holiday time and personal holiday time. Compensation shall be at an hourly rate, computed by dividing the employee’s bi-weekly wage by the number of hours normally worked biweekly, times the number of unused holiday or personal holiday hours accumulated. In the case of a deceased employee, holiday pay shall be paid to the next of kin or to the executor or administrator of the estate. In addition to the above, all shift non-bargaining employees shall be compensated at a rate of 200 percent of their hourly rate of pay when they work Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day, and 150 percent of their hourly rate for the remaining six holidays.
(Ord. 22-108. Passed 7-11-22.)