163.19 VACATIONS.
Effective January 1, 2002, each full-time employee of the City, including full-time hourly rated employees, shall be granted the following paid vacation leave, dependent upon the employee earning and accruing such time:
After one (1) year of service | 2 weeks |
After five (5) years of service | 3 weeks |
After eleven (11) years of service | 4 weeks |
After seventeen (17) years of service | 5 weeks |
After twenty-three (23) years of service | 6 weeks |
Effective January 1, 2002, prior employment with the City of Youngstown may be used to compute the first full year of employment, in accordance with Ohio Revised Code Section 9.44, as amended on October 25, 1995, and the anniversary date of the employee shall be the anniversary date of the attainment of the first full year of employment with the City.
A full-time employee is an employee regularly scheduled on a forty hour week, or in excess thereof, inclusive of lunch period and exclusive of employees serving on a temporary, special or seasonal basis.
The City will continue to utilize a “use-it-or-lose-it” vacation policy. Employees must complete one (1) year of service before being eligible for vacation leave. Upon completion of this one year of service, the employee will be entitled to utilize a pro-rated amount of vacation from the initial hire date to December 31 of the initial hire year. This pro-rated amount will be determined by the vacation hours earned from the employee’s date of hire to December 31 of the initial hire year. Effective January 1 of the succeeding year, the employee will be eligible to take the earned amount of vacation as outlined in the first paragraph of this section. Thereafter, the employee’s anniversary date shall be January 1 of said anniversary year.
Employees hired prior to January 1, 2001, shall have January 1 of each year as their anniversary date for vacation purposes.
Employees in the last year of employment must earn the vacation for that year, i.e., pro- rated to date of termination.
Officers and employees in the various departments of the City not included in any bargaining unit, therefore, designated as Management, cannot carry over from one calendar year to the next any vacation benefit. Any vacation accrual will be lost if it is not used before December 31 of the year of entitlement.
Vacation earned and accrued during an earning period is required to be taken during the next succeeding vacation period unless deferred by the express written permission of the department head or otherwise deferred by appropriate law, ordinance or statute.
Determination of preference as to time of taking vacation shall include primary consideration based on seniority of the employee within the department or division in which employed and the needs and requirements of the City to maintain efficient service.
Employees of the City on sick leave or injured-on-duty leave at the conclusion of a vacation period who have been unable to take their vacation within the prescribed period shall be entitled to carry over such vacation to the succeeding vacation period, providing, however, that the department head may require that such vacation shall be taken after the employee has returned to regular duty without reference to any seniority roster.
Vacation credits may be earned while an employee is on sick leave or injured-on-duty leave, providing, however, that an employee injured on duty and absent from duty as a result of such injury for one full consecutive year receiving full pay for such period is presumed to have been compensated for all vacation leave and holiday leave due during such absence.
Upon retirement or voluntary termination of service, an employee of the City is entitled to receive compensation for all vacation credits earned and due at the rate of pay being received by the employee at the date of separation from service.
In the determination of the length of vacation leave due employees of the City, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays shall be excluded from the computation and such days shall not be computed as vacation days unless employees are receiving compensation or additional time off in lieu of the vacation days.
All vacation leave shall be taken only with the prior authorization and approval of the department head. (Ord. 01-408. Passed 12-19-01.)