(A) No employee shall be deemed to have violated the provisions of this subchapter unless said employee engages in a strike not less than eight hours after issuance of a written proclamation by the City Manager indicating that a strike is occurring and that all city employees are to report to their next regularly scheduled work assignment.
(1) Such proclamation must be issued forthwith by the Manager upon his knowledge that a strike is taking place.
(2) The City Commission, at a regular or special session, may direct the Manager to issue such proclamation.
(3) Such proclamation must be posted in the lobby of the city administrative center and must be disseminated to the news media upon its issuance.
(4) No employee shall be required to be served with or have personal knowledge of such proclamation, in order for the full sanctions of this subchapter to be applicable, provided the time period specified hereinabove is complied with.
(5) After completion of said time period, the Manager must immediately process and execute the personnel action forms necessary to formally acknowledge the termination and abandonment of such person's employment, and such action must be communicated to the employee by notice served upon said employee by certified mail.
('72 Code, § 2-33)
(B) For the purposes of this subchapter, any employee who is absent from any portion of his work assignment without lawful permission or who abstains wholly or in part, from the full and faithful performance of his duties without lawful permission on the date or dates when a strike occurs, is presumed to have engaged in a strike on such date or dates.
('72 Code, § 2-34)
(Ord. O-75-114, passed 11-5-75)