(a) All Full Time employees shall be entitled to the use of vacation time after completion of one (1) year of continuous employment with the City. Each full-time employee shall earn vacation days in accordance with his or her length of service according to the schedule below. The days of vacation are in terms of working hours and forty (40) hours are considered to be one week of vacation.
Service time earned with the State of Ohio or any other political subdivision of the State shall be counted for the purposes of computing vacation leave.
However, the employee does not accrue an increase in vacation time until he/she has reached their anniversary date with the City of Twinsburg.
Years of Complete Service | Hours of Vacation |
1 to 4 | 80 |
5 to 9 | 120 |
10 to 19 | 160 |
20 or more | 200 |
(b) All vacation leave shall be taken in increments of eight (8) hours or ten (10) hours for employees who work ten-hour days. Office and administrative staff who work independently and do not require a replacement to cover for them, are eligible to use vacation as little as thirty (30)-minute increments with approval of Department Head.
(c) After six (6) months of initial employment, an employee may choose to take one week of vacation 'in advance'. Such vacation paid in advance shall be deducted from the employee's last paycheck if the employee separates from the City, for any reason, prior to serving one full year of employment.
(d) Vacations are not cumulative and shall not be postponed until the following anniversary year unless there have been exceptional circumstances which caused postponement. A maximum of ten (10) days may be carried forward. In such cases, a request for holdover must be approved by the Mayor. All leave carried over must be taken within the first three (3) months following the employee's anniversary date.
(e) Absence due to sickness, injury or disability in excess of that hereinafter authorized for such a purpose, may, at the request of the employee, and with the approval of the Mayor, be charged against vacation leave.
(f) When a holiday is observed by the City during an employee's vacation period, the employee shall not be charged for a day of vacation.
(g) Retired or deceased employees shall be entitled to vacation pay for months worked. The vacation pay shall be computed on the basis of one-twelfth (1/12) of their entitled vacation as determined by subsection (a) hereof for each month in which an employee worked a minimum of eighty-five (85) hours. In the instance of deceased employees, the vacation pay shall be made to the deceased's spouse or estate.
(h) On termination of employment the employee shall be paid for any unused vacation balance, except that the Mayor may rule such balance void if a resignation is submitted with less than ten (10) days' notice, or if the employee is discharged for fraud or dishonesty. It is the declared intention hereof that terminating employees may qualify for no more than a pro rata vacation credit based upon their anniversary date and the years of service compared to their date of termination.
(i) All vacation leaves shall be taken at such times as may be approved by the
department heads. (Ord. 89-2021. Passed 12-14-21.)