(a) Each full-time employee of the City of Richmond Heights, including full-time hourly rate employees, shall be entitled to the following vacation, excluding legal holidays, with full pay for continuous service as follows:
Time of Continuous Service for Full-Time Employees
90 days up to 1 year | 1 Calendar Week* |
1-5 years | 2 Calendar Weeks |
6 years | 2 Calendar Weeks 1 Day |
7 years | 2 Calendar Weeks 2 Days |
8 years | 2 Calendar Weeks 3 Days |
9 years | 2 Calender Weeks 4 Days |
10 years | 3 Calendar Weeks |
11 years | 3 Calendar Weeks + 1 Day |
12 years | 3 Calendar Weeks + 2 Days |
13 years | 3 Calendar Weeks + 3 Days |
14 years | 3 Calendar Weeks + 4 Days |
15 years | 4 Calendar Weeks |
16 years | 4 Calendar Weeks 1 Day |
17 years | 4 Calender Weeks 2 Days |
18 years | 4 Calender Weeks 3 Days |
19 years | 4 Calendar Weeks 4 Days |
20 or more years | 5 Calender Weeks |
*Note: During the first year of a full-time employee’s employment with the City, and after successfully completing a ninety (90) day probationary period, the employee may have one (1) day of vacation time, two (2) additional days of vacation after 180 days of continuous service, and two (2) more days of vacation after 270 days of continuous service, the scheduling of which shall be approved by the employee’s supervisor.
(b) Each full-time employee of the City of Richmond Heights in the position of Director of Finance; Economic and Community Development Director; Chief of Police; Chief of Fire; Commissioner of Building, Zoning and Housing; Human Resources Director; and Director of Public Service and Properties shall, at a minimum, be entitled to the vacation benefits in paragraph one (1) above; however, the Mayor, at his/her sole discretion, may grant additional vacation days up to five (5) calendar weeks in total, to any employees in any of the five (5) positions set forth in this paragraph. Those employees who were receiving more than five (5) but no more than six (6) calendar weeks of vacation per year on April 22, 2014 shall continue to receive that amount of vacation time after April 22, 2014.
(Ord. 76-2022. Passed 6-14-22.)
(c) For the purpose of recruitment of new employees and the retention of employees for key positions that are difficult to fill and to retain productive employees due to widespread job market and economic conditions causing a shortage of candidates for such positions and causing current employees to seek higher compensated positions elsewhere, and where the positions require exceptional qualifications or professional certifications required by State law, the Mayor, at his/her sole discretion, may authorize a hiring or retention incentive for-persons for such key positions which consists of vacation time in lieu of compensation, for up to two (2) calendar weeks in addition to the vacation benefits in subsection (a) of this Section, provided that the total value of such additional vacation days at the rate of pay for such position shall not cause the employee's total compensation to exceed the maximum compensation authorized herein in the pay range for that position. The Mayor is also authorized for the purpose of recruitment of said key positions to permit an employee to use vacation time in such amount as may be authorized by the Mayor before the completion of the one-year anniversary date of his/her hire date, but not before completion of the ninety (90)-day probationary period for a new hire.
(d) Vacation time shall accrue to the employee upon each successive annual recurrence of the anniversary date of his/her appointment. Vacations shall be taken by the employee during the year after which it has accrued and prior to the next recurrence of the anniversary date of his/her appointment, provided, that an employee may carry over or cash in a maximum of one-third of his/her earned annual vacation time which must be used within ninety (90) days immediately following the employee's anniversary date for the year in which he/she was entitled to such vacation time.
(e) All earned vacations shall be taken at such time as shall be approved by the Department Head or Mayor. During vacations, employees shall receive their current salary or the proportionate amount thereof, if the Mayor or Department head schedules such vacations into shorter periods for the convenience of the conduct of City business.
(f) The anniversary date of employment for the purpose of computing the amount of vacation any employee is entitled to shall be the date on which the employee began employment with the City of Richmond Heights. Credit for prior service with the City of Richmond Heights shall not be given for purposes of computing the amount of vacation time any employee is entitled to receive, except in the situation where a former employee returns to the employment of the City within one year of having left City employment and the termination of the former employment with the City was not for disciplinary reasons. Vacation credit shall not accrue from prior service with the State or any other political subdivision of the State, Section 9.44 of the Ohio Revised Code being specifically deferred by this section.
(Ord. 31-2022. Passed 4-26-22.)