(a) Full time employees of the Village are entitled to a full day's pay for each holiday. The following days are declared paid holidays from which full-time employees will be excused from work and receive their regular rate of pay:
New Year's Day January 1 Martin Luther King Day Third Monday in January President's Day Third Monday in February Memorial Day Fourth Monday in May Juneteenth June 19 Independence Day July 4 Labor Day First Monday in September Columbus Day Second Monday in October |
(b) When any holiday listed above falls on Saturday, the preceding workday shall be considered the holiday. When the holiday falls on a Sunday, the following workday shall be considered the holiday.
(c) When any holiday listed above falls while an employee or official is on approved vacation time, such holiday shall not be charged against vacation leave.
(d) In the event the Federal and State governments shall designate a day of the week for any of the holidays specified above, then said day shall be observed in accordance with said
designation.
(e) Each full-time employee who is required to work on a day designated as a holiday shall be paid two times their regular-rate of pay for all hours worked and will receive compensatory time based on a rate of two times all hours worked which should be used either during the month or before the end of the following month.
(f) Each full-time employee whose workweek consists of four (4) work days of ten (10) hours per day shall be paid eight (8) hours pay for a holiday. The employee has the option of supplementing the remaining two hours with personal leave, vacation leave or compensatory time. Leave without pay will be charged if the employee chooses not to supplement the remaining two hours, or if no time is available to supplement the two hours.
(g) On Christmas Eve day, or for a day of the week when the Christmas holiday falls on a weekend, the Village Administrator and/or Mayor shall have authority, subject to the needs of the Village, in their sole discretion to award one-half (½) day of discretionary holiday leave to any or all Village employees as they deem appropriate to let them leave early on that said day, or a day of the week. Any employees who do not receive said one-half (½) day of holiday leave, but are required to continue to work, shall not be entitled to any of the benefits of subsection 145.08(e) above or any additional leave, except the Village Administrator and Mayor can agree to provide an employee who continues to work when others receive one-half (½) day of discretionary holiday leave, an additional four (4) hours of vacation leave in lieu of the discretionary holiday leave.
(Ord. 2021-27. Passed 12-6-21.)