(a) Except as otherwise set forth, permitted, provided, and allowed herein, all full-time City officers and/or employees, hired prior to December 22, 2008, whose pay is fixed on a biweekly basis and who are not presently covered by a collective bargaining agreement with AFSCME Local No. 1519, IAFF Local No. 327 or F.O.P. Ohio Labor Council, Inc. shall be entitled to annual vacation leave with full pay in accordance with the following schedule:
(1) One (1) through five (5) completed years of total service credit, two (2) work weeks;
(2) Six (6) through ten (10) completed years of total service credit, three (3) work weeks;
(3) Eleven (11) through fifteen (15) completed years of total service credit, four (4) work weeks;
(4) Sixteen (16) through twenty-four (24) completed years of total service credit, five (5) work weeks.
(5) Twenty-five (25) or more completed years of total service credit, six (6) work weeks.
(b) Effective July 1, 2022, except as otherwise set forth, permitted, provided and allowed herein, all full-time City officers and/or employees, hired after December 22, 2008, whose pay is fixed on a monthly biweekly basis and who are not presently covered by a collective bargaining agreement with AFSCME Local No. 1519, IAFF Local No. 327, or F.O.P. Ohio Labor Council, Inc. shall be entitled to annual vacation leave with full pay in accordance with the following schedule:
(1) Zero (0) through three (3) completed year of total service credit, eighty (80) hours one work week;
(2) Four (4) through five (5) completed years of total service credit, one hundred (100) hours;
(3) Six (6) through ten (10) completed years of total service credit, one hundred and twenty (120) hours;
(4) Eleven (11) through fourteen (14) completed years of total service credit, one hundred and forty (140) hours;
(5) Fifteen (15) through eighteen (18) completed years of total service credit, one hundred and sixty (160) hours;
(6) Nineteen (19) through twenty-one (21) completed years of total service credit, one hundred and eighty (180) hours;
(7) Twenty-two (22) or more completed years of total service credit, two hundred (200) hours.
(c) Upon their date of hire, employees shall receive vacation hours corresponding to their years of total service credit. Thereafter, the vacations hours set forth in subsections (a) and (b) hereof shall be earned on a prorated basis each pay period based on the officer’s or employee’s date of hire (anniversary date). Vacation hours earned shall accrue and be due upon the employee’s subsequent anniversary date. Vacation hours and shall be used only on or after the date accrued but prior to the succeeding anniversary date. Vacation leave may be used at times approved by the employee’s supervisor or the City Manager. Vacation leave for the City Manager shall be approved by the City Commission. With approval of their Department Head and the City Manager, employees may carry over, up to eighty (80) hours of unused vacation time annually. The City Commission must approve the carryover for the City Manager.
(d) The City shall credit an employee with prior service in computing vacation leave as required by Section 9.44 of the Ohio Revised Code.
(e) The City Manager or appointing authority may consider previous public or private employment experience and credit the incoming employee with years of service for calculating vacation leave time if it is deemed necessary to secure the services of a qualified individual to further the mission and operations of the City. All such periods of prior employment for which credit is allowed hereunder shall be utilized in the computation and allowance of vacation annual leave under this section in the same manner in which service with the City is utilized. Such credit will be applied on an individual basis.
(f) Vacation leave shall not be used in excess of the amount of accumulated vacation leave available.
(g) Upon separation with at least one year of service, the employee shall be entitled to a payout for earned but unused vacation leave. Any payout under this section shall be prorated based on the amount of time worked from the employee’s last anniversary date. Such leave shall be paid out at the employee’s hourly rate at the time of separation.
(Ord. 22-128. Passed 7-11-22.)