(A) Compensation for absence on holidays. Any employees of the city, except temporary employees and part-time employees who work less than half the regular work schedule for their assigned classes, shall receive their regular compensation for the following legal holidays or parts thereof or any other day proclaimed as a holiday by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, during which the public offices of the city are closed:
(1) New Year's Day;
(2) Washington's Birthday;
(3) Civil Rights Day;
(4) Memorial Day;
(5) Juneteenth;
(6) Fourth of July;
(7) Labor Day;
(8) Columbus Day;
(9) Biennial Election Day;
(10) Veteran's Day;
(11) Thanksgiving Day;
(12) Christmas Day.
It is not the intention of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen to create an additional paid holiday for city employees. Rather, the intention is to substitute Civil Rights Day for Fast Day, effective upon passage for non-affiliated employees and effective for affiliated employees upon agreement by their exclusive bargaining representatives.
(B) Compensation for a holiday falling on a regularly scheduled day off. Except for employees regularly scheduled to work on a shift basis, when a holiday listed in subsection (A) of this section falls on Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be observed as the legal holiday, and when the legal holiday falls on Sunday, the following Monday shall be observed as the legal holiday.
(C) Compensation for work performed on holidays. Any permanent full-time employee, or permanent part-time employee who regularly works one-half or more of the regular schedule for his assigned class, who is required to perform work or to render services on one of the holidays listed in subsection (A) of this section shall be compensated therefor as follows:
(1) Any employee in any class of positions, except those in the labor and trades group, shall receive their regular pay for the holiday payment at straight time for all hours worked on a holiday.
(2) Any employee in any class of positions in the labor and trades group only shall receive their regular pay for the holiday plus payment at time and one-half their regular rate of pay for all hours worked on a holiday.
(D) Forfeiture of holiday pay. Any employee shall forfeit his right to payment for any holiday if he has an unexcused absence on the last regular work day preceding such holiday or on the next regular work day following such holiday.
(E) Reserve Officers. Individuals who are hired to work as Reserve Officers (compensated as Patrolmen) shall not be entitled to holiday pay.
('71 Code, § 18-48) (Ord. passed 6-14-67; Am. Ord. passed 12-27-67; Am. Ord. passed 1-7-92; Am. Ord. passed 8-6-02; Am. Ord. passed 10-4-22)