Except as may be otherwise provided in this chapter, vacations for employees of the Fire Department shall be as follows:
(a) Each employee of the Fire Department shall be entitled to an annual paid vacation as follows:
Years of Service Completed | Shift Days of Vacation |
More than 1 through 5 | 5 |
More than 5 through 10 | 7 |
More than 10 through 20 | 9 |
More than 20 | 11 |
(b) Vacations may be taken during the calendar year in which they are due and may not be carried over to the next calendar year without the specific approval of Council. However, if an employee was not allowed to take his or her scheduled vacation time due to the specific requests of the City, he or she shall be entitled to take his or her vacation time in the next calendar year.
(c) Vacations may be taken at any time, during the calendar year, mutually agreed upon by the employee and his or her supervisor. All vacation days are not required to be taken consecutively. (Ord. 43-84. Passed 3-26-84.)
(d) Vacations for employees are to be taken and applied on a calendar year basis pursuant to this section. Unused vacation time in any calendar year is not to be carried over into any other calendar year. If, during any calendar year, any such employee, due to years of service, is entitled to additional vacation time, such time may be taken prior to his or her anniversary date. However, any such employee taking this time and then resigning and/or having his or her employment terminated for any reason, shall have any such additional time deducted, calculated at his or her hourly rate of pay per hour, from his or her final wage payment due from the City, or, if no such final payment is due to the employee, then such additional time is to be repaid to the City by the employee.
(e) The total number of vacation days to which such an employee is entitled is not required to be taken consecutively. However, vacation days may not be used in less than half-day increments.
(f) For each calendar year, vacation schedules shall be submitted not later than March 1 of each year for that particular year. Preference shall be given to employees according to seniority where vacation schedules conflict.
(g) Subsections (d) through (f) hereof are intended to establish the policy of the City regarding vacation time of its classified employees who are covered by this section. In the event of a conflict between subsections (d) through (f) hereof and any other provision of this section, subsections (d) through (f) hereof shall prevail.
(Ord. 27-81. Passed 4-13-81.)