(a) Each regular full-time employee shall be entitled to receive one day's pay at the regular rate for each of the following holidays:
New Year's Day,
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
President's Day
Memorial Day
Fourth of July
Labor Day
Veteran's Day
Thanksgiving Day and the day following Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
Two floating holidays to be determined by the City Manager each year by administrative memo.
(b) Two personal days are available to non-probationary full-time employees annually which may not be carried over to the subsequent year. A regular full-time employee who has successfully completed twelve (12) months of full-time employment shall be entitled to a maximum of two (2) working days each year for personal leave. Such personal leave day may be taken consecutively if approved by the department director or division head. Neither personal days shall be charged to the employee's accumulated sick leave. Personal days shall not be accumulative and cannot be applied to the next calendar year. To be eligible to take a personal day, an eligible employee shall give the department director or division head a minimum of twenty-four (24) hours advance notice. The employee shall sign a leave slip attesting that the day in question is taken as a "personal day".
(c) If any of the above listed holidays falls on a Saturday, said holiday shall be celebrated on Friday; if any of the above holidays falls on a Sunday, said holiday shall be celebrated on Monday.
(d) Compensatory time off shall be allowed in lieu of pay for a holiday when work is scheduled on a holiday or if the employee’s scheduled day off falls on the holiday. If due to scheduling, holidays cannot be taken during the year earned, they may be accumulated and taken off in the subsequent year. Days so scheduled must be with the approval of the appropriate department director or division head and authorization of the City Manager. Department directors or division heads shall not be eligible for extra holiday pay.
(e) Full-time non-exempt employees shall be compensated at straight time for all scheduled hours worked on said holidays if the employee has not worked over forty (40) hours during that week. An employee working on a holiday shall be paid at a rate of time and one-half for all hours actually worked in excess of forty (40) in the subject workweek.
(f) To be eligible to receive holiday pay, an employee must work his scheduled shift before and after the holiday. For purposes of this section, an employee on authorized paid leave shall be considered to have worked.
(Ord. 07-0-33. Passed 3-20-07.)