163.03 HOLIDAYS AND PERSONAL LEAVE.
(a) The following calendar days of the year shall be considered and deemed to be holidays insofar as the administration of personnel matters is concerned, and the term holiday shall be construed to mean the following days:
(1) | New Year's Day | January 1 |
(2) | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day | Third Monday in January |
(3) | President's Day | Third Monday in February |
(4) | Good Friday | Friday preceding Easter Sunday |
(5) | Memorial Day | The day designated by the State of Ohio |
(6) | Independence Day | July 4 |
(7) | Labor Day | First Monday in September |
(8) | Columbus Day | Second Monday in October |
(9) | Thanksgiving Day | Fourth Thursday in November |
(10) | Day after Thanksgiving | Friday following Thanksgiving |
(11) | Christmas Eve | A working day immediately preceding or immediately following Christmas Day as determined by the City Manager. |
(12) | Christmas Day | December 25 |
(13) | Any other special day the City closes its offices | |
(b) In the event any of the holidays mentioned in subsection (a) hereof falls on a Saturday or Sunday, it shall be observed as follows. For employees who are not engaged in continuous operations, a holiday falling on Saturday will be observed on the preceding Friday and a holiday falling on Sunday will be observed on the following Monday. For employees engaged in continuous operations, the holiday will be the actual legal holiday.
(c) Except as hereinafter provided, all full-time employees of the City shall be entitled to compensation equivalent to one day's regular pay for each holiday not worked.
(d) No employee shall receive pay for holidays unless he/she works the day before and the day after each holiday, provided that if either of these two days is included in the regular time off for shift work or is either vacation time, sick leave or an excused absence, it shall be excepted.
(e) All full-time employees, except department and division heads, required to work on any of the holidays set forth in subsection (a) hereof shall be entitled to receive payment at the rate of two and one-half times their regular earnings. An employee who is scheduled off for the holiday but is called in to work shall be paid as follows:
(f) Leave in Lieu of Holidays. Editor’s Note: Former subsection (f) was repealed by Ordinance 199-02.
(Ord. 99-05. Passed 5-9-05.)
(g) Personal Leave. The City will grant full-time employees a total of thirty-two hours personal leave per calendar year at straight time which the employee can take off work. Personal leave may only be taken provided twenty-four hours advance notice of the request has been given to the supervisor and the requested time off does not create a requirement for overtime operation. Personal time off may be granted with less than twenty-four hours notice at the supervisor’s discretion. Personal leave for new full-time employees will be earned on the basis of eight hours personal leave for each complete calendar quarter worked during the remainder of the first calendar year of employment. All other full-time employees will be credited with thirty-two hours personal leave, on January 1 of each year. Personal leave may be accumulated by an employee up to a total of sixty-four hours, and may be used in conjunction with an employee’s vacation with the approval of the department head. Personal leave accumulated in excess of sixty-four hours shall be lost. Unused personal leave, whether granted as personal leave only or in lieu of holiday leave for those employees who are required to work on holidays, is forfeited upon separation from City service for any reason, unless otherwise authorized by approved separation agreement. (Ord. 11-16. Passed 2-8-16.)