153.04 VACATIONS.
   (a)   All full-time regular employees of the Municipality shall be entitled to the following number of vacation days with pay:
 
Years of Employment
Vacation Days
New employee first year
No vacation
Years two through five
Ten days
After five years
Fifteen days
After ten years
Twenty days
After twenty years
Twenty-five days
 
   (b)   Except for new employees from the date of hire until January 1 following their one year anniversary date, for the purposes of calculating the above-stated periods of service, the employee's service commencement date shall be deemed to be January 1 of the year in which the employee was hired as a full-time employee by the Municipality.
   (c)   No employee shall be entitled to use vacation time until such employee has been a full-time employee of the Municipality for a period of one calendar year. In unusual circumstances and for good cause shown, with the approval of the Mayor, an employee may be permitted to use vacation time during the first year of employment.
   (d)   After the first calendar year of employment, employees are expected to use accumulated vacation time within the calendar year in which the vacation time is credited. In unusual circumstances and for good cause shown, with the approval of the Mayor and department head, an employee may be permitted to carry a portion of accumulated vacation time into the next vacation period. Vacation time accumulated in one service year cannot be used consecutively with vacation time accumulated in the next service year.
(Ord. 2016-33. Passed 7-13-16.)