(a) All Regular Full Time employees shall be paid eight (8) hours for each holiday. Legal holidays observed by the City shall be as follows:
1st of January | New Year's Day |
3rd Monday, January | Martin Luther King's Birthday |
3rd Monday, February | President's Day |
Last Monday, May | Memorial Day |
19th day of June | Juneteenth |
4th of July | Independence Day |
1st Monday, September | Labor Day |
11th day of November | Veterans Day |
4th Thursday, November | Thanksgiving Day |
4th Friday, November | Day after Thanksgiving |
24th day of December | Christmas Eve |
25th day of December | Christmas Day |
Good Friday | One full day |
Personal Holidays | Two full days of employee's choice (after 6 mo. of full-time service) |
(b) Office and administrative staff who work independently and do not require a replacement to cover for them, are eligible to use personal holidays in quarter hour (1/4) increments with approval of Department Head.
(c) In the event that any of the aforementioned holidays fall on Saturday, the Friday immediately preceding shall be observed as the holiday. In the event that any of the aforementioned holidays falls on Sunday, the Monday immediately succeeding shall be observed as the holiday. The holiday scheduled for December 24, may be substituted at the discretion of the Mayor with a holiday on December 26, if the latter is a more desirable day off in a given year. Other substitutions may be made at the Mayor's discretion. Such substitutions shall be announced no less than six months in advance of the scheduled holiday.
(d) When a full-time employee's regular work schedule requires the employee to work on a holiday, the employee shall be paid at the standard overtime rate of one and one-half (1.5) times their regular rate of pay and shall be granted an alternate eight (8) hours of holiday time. A Lieutenant in the Police Department who is required to work a holiday and cannot take another day off before the end of the year due to department need, shall have the option to be paid out for such missed holidays at eight (8) hours times his/her regular hourly rate at the end of the year.
(e) Part-time firefighters and Part-time dispatchers will be compensated at one hundred fifty percent (150%) of their regular hourly rate when working on the following holidays:
New Year’s Day | Good Friday | Easter Sunday | Memorial Day |
Juneteenth | 4th of July | Labor Day | Veteran’s Day |
Thanksgiving | Day After Thanksgiving | Christmas Eve | Christmas Day |
New Year’s Eve |
(f) If an employee is absent on the scheduled working day preceding or following a scheduled holiday, unless the same be a vacation or personal day of absence, the employee will not be paid for the holiday. However, if an employee is absent from work on the day preceding or following a holiday due to a job related accident or an illness substantiated by medical proof satisfactory to the Mayor, such employee shall not lose the holiday pay herein granted. It is the declared intention hereof, to encourage the reduction of sick leave surrounding holidays and the faithful performance of duty to the City without unduly penalizing or unjustly enriching any employee in the Municipal service.
(g) Office and administrative staff who work independently and do not require a replacement to cover for them, are eligible to use Holiday in 1/2-day increments with approval of Department Head.
(h) If any employee is injured in the course of their employment and injury leave continues during a holiday, eight (8) hours of Holiday pay, shall be paid in lieu of Injury Leave pay for that day.
(i) Any employee may, with approval of the Department Head, advance holidays if such employee finds that s/he is scheduled to work on a regularly observed holiday. Should any such employee who has advanced holidays, terminate their service with the City prior to the actual holiday, then a sum equal to eight hours straight time, shall be deducted from the employee's final pay for each holiday so advanced.
(Ord. 89-2021. Passed 12-14-21.)