(A) The following legal holidays shall be observed by city employees except for those employees required to be on regular duty on a holiday. New Year's Day (1½ working days), Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (the third Monday in January), Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving Day, day following Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day (1½ working days), two personal days per fiscal year to be designated by the employee, and any other days as designated by the City Commission. When a holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the City Commission shall determine the day which shall be observed as a holiday for city employees.
(B) Employees shall be paid for legal holidays, and those employees called to work, except for those required to be on regular duty such as firemen, and lifeguards, shall also be paid for the time worked. Members of the Fire Department and lifeguards, who receive no additional compensation for holiday work, shall be credited with additional vacation leave equal to the number of paid holidays received by other city employees after each full year of service. Those members of the Fire Department who work on a rotating-shift basis shall be credited with six additional shifts vacation leave after each full year of service, which shall be considered to be equal to the number of paid holidays received by other city employees.
(1) Part-time and temporary employees shall not be entitled to holidays with pay; however, they shall be paid at their regular hourly rate of pay for time actually worked on a holiday.
(2) Employees, other than members of the Fire Department and lifeguards as noted in (B) above, whose work schedule requires them to work on a holiday shall be paid an additional eight hours' pay as compensation for the holiday, during that pay period, at the employee's regular hourly rate of pay.
(3) If a holiday falls on the normal day off of an employee, other than members of the Fire Department and lifeguards as noted in (B) above, the employee shall be paid an additional eight-hours' pay as compensation for the holiday, during that pay period, at the employee's regular hourly rate of pay.
(4) The personal day holiday to be designated by the employee may not be taken until after the employee has completed six months of continuous service with the city. The employee must give at least three days notice to his department head and receive the permission of the department head. The day must be taken during each fiscal year and is not cumulative and it must be taken in a full eight-hour day only.
(5) In order to receive pay for an official legal holiday, an employee must earn a full day's pay on his regularly scheduled work days both preceding and immediately after the legal holiday. For purposes of this division an employee on paid vacation, paid sick leave, workman's compensation, authorized absence, death in the family, jury duty, or military leave shall be considered as earning a full day's pay. Employees on excused absence, unexcused absence, suspension, disability leave, and leave without pay shall not be considered as earning a full day's pay, and shall not be paid for the legal holiday. This division applies only to those employees who are entitled to legal holidays off with pay. Members of the Fire Department, lifeguards, and other employees who are required to be on regular duty on legal holidays are not governed by this division.
(6) Except as noted in (B) above for combat-shift firefighters, all city employees holidays are to be of eight hours' duration, except for the Christmas and New Years holidays, which are to be of twelve hours' duration. Employees working other than an eight-hour-per-day work schedule shall receive the above-stated number of hours for their holiday.
('58 Code, § 11.95.1) (Ord. 69-85, passed 9-9-69; Am. Ord. 78-55, passed 6-6-78; Am. Ord. 86-64, passed 5-20-86; Am. Ord. 87-56, passed 6-30-87; Am. Ord. 95-8, passed 10-18-94; Am. Ord. 2000-4, passed 10-12-99; Am. Ord. 2000-25, passed 12-14-99)