(a) The full-time employees shall be entitled to a vacation with pay based upon the following schedule:
Years of Continuous Service | Hours of Paid Vacation |
After 6 month < 1 year | 40.00 hours |
After 1 year | 80.00 hours |
After 5 years | 120.00 hours |
After 10 years | 160.00 hours |
After 15 years | 200.00 hours |
After 20 years | 240.00 hours |
(b) For the purpose of determining the amount of vacation compensation to which each employee is entitled, the employee's anniversary date of full-time employment shall be used as the date determinative of the length of service. However, any full-time employee of the City, initially employed by the City prior to July 5, 1987, who has been previously employed by the State of Ohio, or any of its political subdivisions, is entitled to have such prior employment counted for the purpose of computing vacation; such employee shall be entitled only to service credit for each pay period during which the employee actually worked. Any full-time employee of the City, initially employed by the City on or after July 5, 1987, shall have only prior employment within the City of Willoughby Hills counted for the purpose of computing vacation.
(c) "Pay", as used in this section, means the following:
(1) For hourly rated employees: the regular hourly rate as established by the Compensation Schedules as set by Council.
(2) For salaried employees: the prorated average daily rate of the monthly salary.
(d) In times of emergency or civil disturbance the Mayor shall have the right to suspend, postpone, or cancel vacation days.
(e) In assigning the time for vacation periods to employees of a department, the director of the department shall give preference to employees senior in years of service.
(f) No vacation may be postponed or permitted to accumulate from year to year and each vacation must be completed before the anniversary date of employment; in the event that a vacation is not completed before the anniversary date of employment, it shall be deemed forfeited, except as set forth herein:
(1) Due to extenuating circumstances and upon written request of the employee received by the Mayor prior to the employee's anniversary date of employment, the Mayor shall have the authority to waive the stipulation as set forth in subsection (f).
(2) Up to eighty (80) hours of vacation time may be deemed as not forfeited and may be carried over from the employee's anniversary date of employment.
(3) If granted, the vacation time will be carried over from the employee's anniversary date of employment and must be used within ninety (90) days.
(g) Employees may not waive their vacations and draw extra pay for working during their vacation.
(h) Eligible employees who resign or are discharged for cause shall not be entitled to vacation or vacation pay.
(i) Eligible employees with ten (10) or more years of continuous service with the City of Willoughby Hills who leave the employment of the City, are in good standing and are eligible to retire from either the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) or the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund (OPFPF) shall be eligible to receive payment at the employee's current rate of pay for the employee's accumulated but unused vacation time.
(Ord. 2021-015. Passed 9-23-21.)