(A) Employees shall be entitled to 11 paid holidays per year, or the Monday following each such holiday when said holiday falls on a Sunday or the previous Friday off if the holiday falls on a Saturday; except that, the city shall follow the federal holiday schedule if it is conflicting with these provisions:
(1) New Year’s Eve;
(2) New Year’s Day;
(3) Good Friday;
(4) Memorial Day;
(5) Fourth of July;
(6) Labor Day;
(7) Thanksgiving;
(8) Friday following Thanksgiving;
(9) Christmas Eve;
(10) Christmas Day; and
(11) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
(B) In the event that an employee shall be required to work on one or more such holidays, he or she may, subject to the approval of the Mayor, schedule an alternate day off at any time prior to the end of the then current fiscal year. In the event that no such alternate day off has been scheduled and taken prior to the end of the then current fiscal year, the employee shall be compensated on the basis of the union contract or the rules governing the particular department. Any other employee not covered by a union contract shall be compensated one eight- hour day’s pay when no alternate day off has been scheduled to compensate for working on a holiday.
(C) Head of departments and officers appointed by the Mayor are not entitled to holiday compensation beyond the amounts budgeted and appropriated in the annual appropriations ordinance.
(Prior Code, § 35.30) (Ord. 71-O-777, passed - -1971; Ord. 74-O-870, passed - -1974; Ord. 76-O-909, passed - -1976; Ord. 85-O-1198, passed 11-20-1985; Ord. 87-O-1258, passed 1-21-1987; Ord. 88-O-1300, passed 2-3-1988)