(a) After one full year of service with the city, all full-time employees covered by this chapter shall have earned vacation as follows:
(1) Ten days' vacation after one year of service;
(2) Fifteen days' vacation after five years of service;
(3) Twenty days' vacation after 14 years of service; and
(4) Twenty-five days' vacation after 20 years of service.
(b) All vacations shall be approved by the Director of Public Service and no employee shall be permitted to take more than three consecutive weeks at any time.
(c) All vacations are to be set up and scheduled by the department heads and/or the Mayor. Years of accrual shall be the employee's anniversary date.
(d) In the event that a holiday falls within an employee's paid vacation period, the employee shall receive one extra day's wages. However, an employee cannot take a one-day vacation on a recognized holiday.
(e) With the approval of the Mayor, a maximum of two weeks of unused vacation may be carried over from one year to the next.
(f) With the approval of the Mayor, an employee may choose to receive pay in lieu of unused vacation. This option shall be limited to two weeks of unused vacation during any one year. Compensation shall be based on the employee’s straight-time wage rate.
(g) The Mayor, as Director of Public Service, has the right to place qualified new hire employees with completed full time years of prior applicable/comparable work experience on the vacation accrual schedule at an advanced accrual rate based on their prior applicable/comparable work experience.
(Ord. 9-98, passed 3-2-1998; Ord. 60-2003, passed 12-15-2003; Ord. 8-2024, passed 6-3-2024)