A. The City agrees to incorporate into the Memorandum the benefits provided under Administrative Regulation 2.11, as amended, modified to indicate the following holidays.
Employees, except those on hourly paid status, shall, when possible without disrupting the various municipal services, be allowed the paid holidays listed below:
- New Year’s Day – January 1
- Martin Luther King’s Birthday – Third Monday in January
- President’s Day – Third Monday in February
- Cesar Chavez’s Birthday – March 31
- Memorial Day – Last Monday in May
- Independence Day – July 4
- Labor Day – First Monday in September
- Veteran’s Day – November 11
- Thanksgiving Day – Fourth Thursday in November
- Friday after Thanksgiving Day
- Eve of the Christmas holiday – Four (4) hours
- Christmas Day – December 25
- Two vacation days – After completion of six months of full-time employment added to vacation bank of hours.
When a holiday named herein falls on Sunday, it shall be observed on the following Monday, and when a holiday herein falls on a Saturday, it shall be observed on the preceding Friday, except that the Library Division may observe such holidays on Saturday, and in the case of continuous operations and seven day operations, holidays shall be observed only on the calendar days on which they actually fall. This paragraph shall not apply to the Eve of Christmas holiday, which shall only be granted when it falls on the employees’ regular scheduled work day.
A unit member working in a continuous operation, whose regularly scheduled day off falls on a holiday specified above, and who is called in to work a regular shift on such holiday and scheduled day off, shall be compensated as follows: eight (8) hours pay for the holiday plus pay at time and one half (1 1/2) the regular rate for each hour assigned and worked, plus compensatory time credit for each hour assigned and worked to a maximum of eight (8) hours.
B. Vacation accrual, carryover, and separation payout shall be governed by the following table:
SERVICE MONTHLY MAXIMUM PAYOUT YEARS ACCRUAL CARRYOVER
- 0-5 8 hours 192 hours 240 hours
- 6-10 10 hours 240 hours 300 hours
- 11-15 11 hours 264 hours 330 hours
- 16-20 13 hours 312 hours 390 hours
- 21 + 15 hours 360 hours 450 hours
Unit members shall be allowed vacation buy out twice per calendar year, on the last paycheck of November and/or May. The total annual buy out is up to a maximum of eighty (80) hours taken in no m ore than forty (40) hour increments, after the em ployee has accum ulated a minimum of one hundred twenty (120) hours and has used forty (40) hours of vacation/comp-time during the calendar year.
For the 2010-2012 contract, this vacation buy-back benefit is suspended. It will be restored as of June 30, 2012 (for purposes of Meet and Confer for the 2012 – 2014 contract).
Unit members may contribute accrued vacation or compensatory time to other employees in accordance with City policy governing contribution of leave for serious illness of an employee or their immediate family member.
To every extent practicable, a transferred unit member will be allowed to maintain his previous vacation schedule.
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