(a) All regular City employees who have completed one hundred sixty (160) work hours of their probationary period in accordance with Section 2117.36, “Probationary Period”, shall be entitled to fifteen (15) paid holidays as set forth below. To be entitled to receive pay for the holidays the employee shall have worked or be on a compensated day off on the work day before and the work day after the holiday. An employee who misses work and is not on approved leave on the day before or the day after a holiday will forfeit two times the amount of time missed from his/her holiday pay to a maximum of eight (8) hours.
(b) New Year's Day; Martin Luther King Day (3rd Monday in January); Presidents Day (3rd Monday in February); Good Friday; Columbus Day; Memorial Day (last Monday in May); Fourth of July; Labor Day; Veterans Day (November 11); Thanksgiving Day; the Day after Thanksgiving; Christmas Eve (the last regular work day before Christmas Day); Christmas Day.
(c) In addition to the above listed holidays, the employees shall be entitled to two (2) discretionary holidays to be selected by the employee and scheduled with adequate notification to the appropriate supervision. Shift workers who lose the Day after Thanksgiving as a paid holiday in a given year shall receive an additional discretionary holiday. Employees shall schedule discretionary holidays in such a way as not to impair the operations of the work unit, but the holidays shall be scheduled and the employee shall be permitted to take the holidays at some time during the calendar year.
(d) For all employees observing the regular Monday through Friday work schedule, in the event any of the above holidays fall on Saturday, the City shall celebrate the holidays on Friday, and in the event the holidays shall fall on a Sunday, the City shall celebrate the holiday on Monday.
(e) The six major holidays are New Years Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.