(a) All employees who are classified as full-time, which are those employees who regularly work no less than forty hours per week, shall receive eight hours pay, at their last preceding wage rate, for each of the holidays listed below occurring during their employment. Such employees shall not be required to work on any such holiday, except in the case of an emergency and/or need as determined by the head of the department and/or the Mayor, and in such a case such employees shall receive pay for all hours worked in addition to the holiday pay. To be entitled to such holiday pay, such employees shall be present and working their regularly scheduled hours on the work day preceding and the next day following such holiday, unless they are on vacation leave previously approved by the Mayor or provide written verification from a medical provider that they or an immediate family member had a medical condition or injury that prevented the employee from working on the date in question.
(b) All full-time employees, with the exception of safety force employees, shall be paid holiday pay during that pay period in which the holiday falls. Holidays shall not accumulate for use at a later date. Full-time safety force employees shall take all holiday days to which they are entitled no later than the end of the quarter after the quarter in which the designated holiday falls within the calendar year. Notwithstanding the above, for holidays that fall within the last quarter of the calendar year, safety-force employees shall take those holiday days prior to the end of the calendar year in which the holiday falls.
(c) Holidays are as follows:
(1) All but police. New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents’ Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and the employee’s birthday.
(2) Police Department. New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents’ Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, General Election Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and the employee’s own birthday.
(Ord. 1997-71. Passed 12-10-97; Ord. 1999-34. Passed 6-9-99; Ord. 2000-30. Passed 3-22-00; Ord. 2001-20. Passed 2-14-01; Ord. 2001-40. Passed 5-23-01. Ord. 2006-67. Passed 12-28-06; Ord. 2020-08. Passed 2-26-20.)