Employees who are credited with hours of work on any of the major holidays shall be compensated twelve (12) hours at their regular straight time rate for having been credited with hoursworked on those days. The seven (7) major holidays for which such additional compensation shall be paid are New Years Day, Easter Sunday, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Any Staff Chief who works either the calendar day before or the calendar day after any of the seven (7) major holidays shall be compensated an additional four (4) hours at their regular straight time rate for those holidays.
Staff Chiefs will have the option of working four (4) ten (10) hour days on those weeks where a major holiday falls on a weekday or any weekday holiday that Local 7 members have off with prior approval of the Chief/ Director.