(A) Members of the Police Department, Certain Members of the Utilities and Public Works Department.
(1) Each employee of the Police Department, each employee of the Sewage and Water Treatment Plants of the City and employees in the Department of Public Works assigned to irregular shifts shall be granted one day holiday leave or part thereof in lieu of working on each of the following legal holidays or part thereof: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, President's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the Friday following Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and the employee's birthday. Such employees shall be granted one-half day holiday leave or part thereof in lieu of working on each of the following half-day legal holidays or part thereof: one-half day Christmas Eve and one-half day New Year's Eve. The department heads shall have authority to designate the day or part thereof which may be taken by their employees in lieu of holidays. Such days may be granted separately or consecutively, regardless of whether the specific holiday has passed in a particular year.
(2) An employee shall be compensated at one and one-half his hourly rate of pay in the following instances:
(a) If an employee is required to work on Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and/or Christmas Day, or part thereof; or
(b) If an employee is unable to take his holiday leaves other than Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day during any calendar year because of the personnel requirements of the department to which he is assigned, payment for which shall be made on the first payday after the end of the calendar year.
(3) An employee's birthday holiday may be used as a personal leave day on a different date, with the approval of the department head, provided the employee gives notice of his intention to utilize the leave day privilege ten working days in advance of his birthday.
(4) For purposes of this section, an employee's first four days of holiday leave in any calendar year shall be in lieu of the days set forth in subsection (a)(2)A. hereof.
(B) Members of the Fire Department.
(1) All members of the Fire Department working twenty-four hour tours of duty shall be entitled to eight tours of duty off with pay in lieu of the holidays celebrated by other City employees. Members of the Fire Department normally assigned a forty hour work week shall celebrate holidays in accordance with the provisions of this section covering other similarly situated City employees. Members of the Fire Department required to work on Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and/or Christmas Day shall be paid time and one-half their normal rate of pay.
(2) Members of the Fire Department receiving eight tours of duty off with pay in lieu of set holidays, shall be able to utilize up to three of such tours as priority personal days. Such priority personal days may be taken upon the request of the employee, providing that the request is made at least forty-eight hours in advance of the beginning of the tour to be taken off and that no more than two other employees are taking the same tour off by exercising their right to a priority personal day.
(3) The remaining five tours shall be taken as holiday tours off with the Chief of the Fire Department assigning the days to be taken if the member of the Fire Department fails to utilize such time. All holiday time shall be approved in advance by the Chief of the Fire Department.
(4) In the event a member of the Fire Department is unable to take his holiday time off during the calendar year in which it is earned due to the City's refusal to let the member take the time off throughout the year, such member shall be paid for such unused compensatory time at his regular hourly rate of pay in the first pay period in January.
(Ord. 138-83. Passed 7-25-83.)