157.02 PERSONAL TIME OFF BENEFITS FOR REGULAR PART-TIME EMPLOYEES

   (a)   All regular, part-time municipal employees shall mean all persons that have been employed by the City for not less than five consecutive years and who have been regularly scheduled to work no less than one thousand forty hours (1040) the previous year. Said employee shall be eligible to receive personal time off benefits set forth herein. A regular part-time municipal employee does not include seasonal employees. Should a seasonal employee become a regular part-time employee their seasonal years of employment will be used to determine eligibility.

   (b)   Every eligible regular part-time municipal employee shall be entitled to five personal time off days (PTO days) per calendar year for any reason, and shall be permitted five hours of compensation per day as if actually working on the day not worked. The PTO days herein provided for shall apply to scheduled workdays only. In the event that a department does not have a weekly work schedule, scheduled workdays are defined to be the eligible part- time municipal employees’ regular hours of work during Monday through Friday. PTO days will not be included in the computation of overtime.

   (c)   Employees that were employed for the City of Independence at a full-time status, elect retirement, and return to employment at a part-time status are not eligible for the PTO days benefit.
(Ord. 2005-45. Passed 10-11-05.)