(a) The following 14 days are hereby declared holidays for City employees:
(1) New Year’s Day;
(2) Martin Luther King Day;
(3) Good Friday;
(4) Memorial Day (the fourth Monday of May);
(5) Fourth of July;
(6) Labor Day;
(7) Columbus Day;
(8) Thanksgiving Day;
(9) The day after Thanksgiving;
(10) Christmas Eve;
(11) Christmas Day; and
(12) Three floating holidays, one representing the employee’s birthday.
(Ord. 180-99. Passed 11-8-99; Ord. 76-24. Passed 7-8-24.)
(b) The floating holidays will be given to each full-time employee. The dates of such holidays will be at the discretion of the employee, with the consent of the appropriate department director.
(c) When any holiday listed in subsection (a) hereof falls on a non-working day, the following working business day shall be considered a holiday. In addition to the holidays set forth in subsection (a) hereof, any day may be designated as a holiday by proclamation of the Mayor and approval of Council. An employee must work the working day preceding and succeeding a holiday or be on authorized leave in order to be compensated for a holiday.
(d) No full-time permanent employee shall fail to be paid for a holiday by reason of authorized absence on such day. A full-time permanent hourly paid employee shall be compensated for time worked on the holidays named in subsection (a) hereof at a rate which includes a full pay for the holiday, plus actual hours worked.
(e) Double time and compensatory time-off, as provided in this chapter, shall be allowed only where an employee is required to work on such holiday or its legal observance. Compensatory time-off shall be arranged for and taken by employees only upon approval of their director.
(f) Part-time or intermittent employees who work on one of the designated holidays shall be compensated double time for all hours actually worked. The designated holidays are as follows: New Years Day, Easter Sunday, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
(Ord. 14-86. Passed 4-28-86; Ord. 76-24. Passed 7-8-24.)