(a) Vacation leave shall be computed on the basis of a regular work week at the applicable straight time rates. Vacation leave may be scheduled throughout the calendar year at a time determined by the employee's department head, subject to the approval of the Mayor or the Village Administrator. When a paid holiday falls within an employee's approved vacation period, the holiday shall not count as a day of vacation. If an employee is on vacation the day immediately preceding and/or immediately following a holiday, the vacation day will be considered a work day.
No employee hired by the Village after January 1, 1981, shall be entitled to vacation time as accrued with any other employer.
Each employee covered by this section shall be entitled to vacations according to the following schedule:
(1) Those employees having completed one full year of continuous service with the Village shall be entitled to two weeks paid vacation per year; however, no paid vacation shall be granted until the employee has completed one full year of continuous service with the Village.
(2) Those employees having completed eight years but less than fifteen years of continuous service with the Village shall be entitled to three weeks paid vacation per year.
(3) Those employees having completed fifteen years but less than twenty-five years of continuous service shall be entitled to four weeks paid vacation per year.
(4) Those employees having completed twenty-five or more years of continuous service with the Village shall be entitled to five weeks of paid vacation per year.
Upon termination of service, credit for earned vacation shall be allowed, unless the employee is released for an infraction of a rule or regulation.
(b) Vacation leave shall be permitted to be accumulated and carried over only as follows:
(1) An employee entitled to one week of vacation leave per anniversary year shall not be permitted to carry over any vacation leave to the following anniversary year.
(2) An employee entitled to two weeks vacation leave per anniversary year may carry over one week of vacation leave to the following anniversary year, which carried over vacation must be used in such following anniversary year.
(3) An employee entitled to three weeks vacation leave or more per anniversary year may carry over two weeks of vacation leave to the following anniversary year, which carried over vacation must be used in such following anniversary year.
(4) The maximum number of consecutive weeks of vacation leave allowed to an employee in any anniversary year shall be the number of vacation weeks earned by that employee for the current year.
(5) No carried over vacation leave may be accumulated, and such leave must be used in the following year or it will be forfeited by the employee.
(6) If an employee's services are terminated by the employee without the Village receiving proper notice from the employee, all accumulated vacation leave of the employee shall be forfeited. Proper notice is deemed to be notice, in writing, served on the Village Administrator not less than fourteen days prior to the date of termination of services by said employee.
(Ord. 1304. Passed 12-27-95; Ord. 1345. Passed 7-28-97.)