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COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
Progression from the minimum to the maximum pay rate for each job classification shall take place upon the recommendation of an employee's department head and the approval of the Mayor, if the employee is under the Mayor's supervision, or the approval of the Clerk-Treasurer, if the employee is under the Clerk-Treasurer's supervision.
(Ord. 1982-6, passed - - ; Am. Ord. 1992-35, passed 12-22-92)
(A) If an employee who is paid by the hour works more than 40 hours during any seven-day period, provided the additional hourly work was at the direction of his department head, the employee shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half times his hourly rate of pay for such hours.
(B) If the employee so desires, he may request in writing time off work at a rate of one and one- half hours for each hour overtime in lieu of overtime wages. Said request shall be presented to his department head. It shall be the duty of the department head to approve or disapprove the request. Disapproval would result in the employee being paid the overtime wage rate.
(C) All time off work taken in this fashion must be taken within the same pay period of succeeding pay period and may not be accumulated to more than 24 work hours. During an emergency any hours exceeding 24 will be paid at overtime rate.
(Ord. 1982-6, passed - - )
(A) The following days shall be considered as holidays: New Year's Day, Good Friday (one-half day only), Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Election Days, Thanksgiving and the day following Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. If any of the above listed holidays falls on a Saturday, normally the holiday will be observed on the immediately preceding Friday and if any of the above holidays falls on a Sunday, normally the holiday will be observed on the immediate succeeding Monday.
(B) Compensation pay for holidays not worked.
(l) If a holiday falls on a regular scheduled work day, and the employee is not required to work on the day, the employee will be paid holiday pay at a regular straight time rate for the time the employee normally would have been scheduled to work.
(2) If a holiday falls on a regular scheduled day off, and the employee is not notified to work on the day, the city will at its option either:
(a) Pay the employee eight hours at regular straight time rate for such holiday; or
(b) In lieu of the holiday pay, at a time convenient to the city, in the current preceding or succeeding week, give the employee a day off on one of his scheduled work days with pay at the rate the employee would have received if the employee had worked the scheduled day. If the employee is notified to work on a holiday and does not work, he will not receive pay for that day, unless excused by the city.
(3) An employee shall not receive holiday pay if he has an unexcused absence for any portion of a scheduled work day immediately preceding or following a holiday.
(4) An employee shall not be paid holiday pay for any scheduled work day that he is absent from work due to a disability.
(5) If a holiday falls during an employee's scheduled vacation, the city will at its option either:
(a) Pay holiday pay and schedule a day of vacation at a later day convenient to the city and the employee; or
(b) In lieu of holiday pay, at a time convenient to the city, give the employee a day off during the work week preceding the vacation period or a day off during the work week immediately following the vacation period. Pay for this day off shall be at the employee's regular straight-time rate.
(6) For the purposes of computation of overtime only, a holiday falling within an employee's regular work schedule, and in which the employee is not required to work, or a day off in lieu of a holiday, shall be deemed as time worked to the extent of eight hours.
(C) Compensation pay for holidays worked. If an employee is required to work on a holiday which falls within the time limits of the normal regular schedule for that day, the employee will be paid one and one-half times the applicable straight-time rate in addition to holiday pay provided in division (B) above.
(Ord. 1982-6, passed - - )
(A) Regular employees are eligible for vacation time with pay at their straight-time rate as follows:
Length of service as of January 1 | Vacation Eligibility |
Less than l year as of Jan. 1 | 8 hrs. for each 2 full months of service - max. of 40 hrs. |
l year | 40 hours |
2 years | 80 hours |
10 years | 120 hours |
15 years | 160 hours |
(B) Vacations shall be scheduled and taken on consecutive work days as approved by the department head in accordance with the need of the department. Every effort will be made to respect the vacation requests of the employee consistent with those needs. All vacation requests should be submitted to the department head by March 1. If there is a conflict in vacation time within a department, preference of vacation time will be given the most senior employee. Vacation requests received after March 1, will be considered in order received.
(C) Employees are to take their earned vacation. Vacations carried over to the succeeding year are not permitted unless the employee has the written consent of the Mayor's office. In case of a rare or unusual circumstance, where the city may require an employee to reschedule his earned vacation to the succeeding calendar year, the employee is required to take such earned vacation. Pay in lieu of vacation is not permitted by state law.
(D) If a holiday falls during an employee's scheduled vacation and the employee is eligible for holiday pay, the employee's vacation time will normally be extended an additional day and the employee paid for the holiday.
(E) Vacation eligibility and vacation pay shall be reduced 10% for each 25 working days or portion thereof that an employee is away from work, except when such absence is compensable as time worked.
(Ord. 1982-6, passed - - )
(A) In addition to the holidays enumerated in § 34.42 each regular full-time employee, if eligible, may receive a maximum of two paid absence days during the calendar year (January through December).
To qualify for two paid absence days an employee must be on active payroll as of January 1. Regular full- time employees hired after January 1, but before July 1, will be eligible for one paid absence day after completing six months' service.
(B) Paid absence days will be at the employee's straight-time rate. The employee may take paid absence days in two 8-hour days but shall not take less than four hours in any given work day.
(C) The employee is expected to give his supervisor one week notice of the date on which the paid absence day will be observed and in no case shall such absence days be taken consecutive with a recognized holiday or vacation time.
(D) Paid absence days must be taken or scheduled by November l each year, otherwise they shall be forfeited.
(E) The dates of observance of an employee's absence days are subject to approval of the immediate supervisor.
(Ord. 1982-6, passed - - )
(A) The purpose of this policy is to prevent the loss of regular straight-time pay in case of absence due to death in an employee's family. Accordingly, an employee will receive, upon request, a maximum of three consecutive working days off, as is necessary, not extending beyond the day following the funeral, nor beginning before the date of death, without loss of regular straight-time pay.
(B) Immediate family shall be: an employee's father, mother, sister, brother, wife, husband, son, daughter, father-in-law, mother-in-law, or any relative who is a member of the employee's household.
(C) In case of the death of an employee's son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparent, or the death of a member of his household who is not a relative, the employee will be permitted, upon request, to be off on the day of the funeral, without loss of regular straight-time pay.
(D) This provision will not apply within the time limits of other absences including vacations, leaves of absence, or absence because of illness or injury.
(Ord. 1982-6, passed - - )
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