A. Each full-time employee in the city is entitled to and shall earn annual vacation leave credits from the first full pay period of employment. For calculating vacation leave credits, two thousand eighty hours (fifty-two weeks times forty hours) shall equal one year. Proportionate vacation leave credits shall be earned and credited at the end of each pay period; however, employees are not entitled to any vacation leave with pay until they have been continuously employed for a period of twelve calendar months. Persons regularly employed nine or more months each year, but whose continuous employment is interrupted by the seasonal nature of the position, shall earn vacation credits; however, such persons must be employed twelve qualifying months before they can use the vacation credits. In order to qualify, such employees must immediately report back for work when operations resume in order to avoid a break in service. Vacation leave credits shall be earned in accordance with the following schedule:
1. From one full pay period through ten years of employment at the rate of fifteen working days for each year of service;
2. After ten years through fifteen years of employment at the rate of eighteen working days for each year of service;
3. After fifteen years through twenty years of employment at the rate of twenty-one working days for each year of service;
4. After twenty years of employment at the rate of twenty-four working days for each year of service.
Permanent part-time employees are entitled to prorated annual vacation benefits if they have regularly scheduled work assignments and normally work at least twenty hours each week of the pay period and have worked the qualifying period.
B. It is unlawful for an employer to terminate or separate an employee from his employment in an attempt to circumvent the provisions of this law.
(Ord. 320 § 1, 1974).