(A) Rest periods. Every regular employee, when working under conditions where a break period is practicable, shall be granted a 15-minute break period in each half of the employee’s shift. Each department head shall schedule rest periods so as not to interfere with work requirements.
(B) Holidays. The following calendar days and such other days as the Council may fix are paid holidays: New Year’s Day, President’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and floating holiday to be chosen by employees. All employees in regular positions are entitled to time off with full pay on holidays. The City Hall shall be closed for business on each such holiday, but employees may be required to work on paid holidays when the nature of their duties or other conditions require. An employee required to work on a holiday shall receive another day off within 30 days thereafter, as the Council determines, unless consideration is given to this factor in determining work schedules. When New Year’s Day, Independence Day or Christmas Day falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is a paid holiday and, if any such day falls on Saturday, the preceding Friday is a holiday. Each holiday commences at the beginning of the first shift on the day on which the holiday occurs and continues for 24 hours thereafter. Eligible employees shall receive pay for official holidays at their normal rate of pay if they are at work or on a leave of absence with pay the last regular shift to which they would have been assigned prior to the holiday and the first regular shift to which they would have been assigned following the holiday. In addition to meeting the foregoing criteria, part-time employees are entitled to pay on a holiday only if they would normally be scheduled to work on the day of the week designated as the holiday and they shall be paid only for the number of hours they would have worked.
(1978 Code, § 208.13) (Ord. 88-2, passed 1-19-1988)