(a) Upon the effective date of this section, all prior vacation benefits for employees of the city are repealed, and each full-time employee of the city shall be entitled to a vacation with pay as follows.
(1) Upon completion of one year of full-time service, each full-time employee shall be entitled to two weeks paid vacation, for which salaried employees will be paid for two weeks of salary, and hourly employees will be paid for 80 hours of wages.
(2) Upon completion of 60 continuous months of full-time service, each full-time employee shall be entitled to three weeks paid vacation, for which salaried employees will be paid for three weeks of salary, and hourly employees will be paid for 120 hours of wages.
(3) Upon completion of 180 continuous months of full-time service, each full-time employee shall be entitled to four weeks paid vacation, for which salaried employees will be paid for four weeks of salary, and hourly employees will be paid for 160 hours of wages.
(4) Upon completion of 240 continuous months of full-time service, each full-time employee shall be entitled to five weeks paid vacation, for which salaried employees will be paid for five weeks of salary, and hourly employees will be paid for 200 hours of wages.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) hereof, payment for vacation time shall be based upon the employee's current rate of pay at the time the vacation is taken. Earned vacation shall be awarded on the employee's anniversary date in accordance with the schedule set forth in this section, provided that the employee is employed by the city at that time. Any employee who has accumulated and earned vacation time from being employed full-time by the state or any other political subdivision of the state, and who has become employed by the city within one year from his or her termination from such other public employer, shall, for the purpose of determining years of service, be credited for the years of full-time service at the state or other political subdivision, not to exceed three years.
(c) Vacation time shall not be carried over from one year to another. Any earned vacation time that is not used or paid for within 12 months after it is earned shall be forfeited.
(d) Each employee shall inform the city of a request for cash payment in lieu of taking a holiday or vacation, within 30 days of such holiday and/or vacation. If such designation is not made, the employee will automatically be granted compensatory time. Compensatory time not scheduled as time off by the employer or taken by the employee prior to December 31 of each year, with the exception of those holidays occurring in the month of December which can be carried over to January 31, shall be forfeited.
(Ord. 96-O-42, passed 9-4-1996)