ARTICLE V

SECTION B
HOLIDAYS

  1. Holidays will be compensated at the actual number of hours regularly scheduled.

  2. HOLIDAY SCHEDULES
    1. Legal holidays shall be as follows:

      • January 1st, known as "New Year's Day"
      • Third Monday in January, known as "Martin Luther King Day"
      • Third Monday in February, known as "Presidents' Day"
      • Last Monday in May, known as "Memorial Day"
      • July 4th, known as "Independence Day"
      • First Monday in September, known as "Labor Day"
      • November 11th, known as "Veterans Day"
      • Fourth Thursday in November, known as "Thanksgiving Day"
      • Friday following the fourth Thursday in November, known as "Day after Thanksgiving"
      • December 25th, known as "Christmas Day"
      • Four hours on the afternoon of December 24th (known as Christmas Eve) or four hours on the afternoon of December 31st (known as New Year's Eve).*

      * NOTE: If an employee works both Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, the employee shall be entitled to overtime as provided for in Article VIII, Section F, for the four (4) hours holiday worked (See Exhibit K).

      Any such other days as may be authorized by resolution of the City Council.

    2. If a legal holiday falls on a day on which a provisional, probationary, permanent, or exempt employee would normally work, he or she shall be entitled to the day off with pay, or if he or she works, to additional compensation for time worked at one and one half (1-1/2) times the base pay.

    3. If any of the legal holidays under Article V, Section B fall on an employee's day off, the nearest preceding or following work day, respectively, shall be entitled to additional compensation as provided in the rule on overtime.

    4. Employees in the Refuse Section receiving differential shall be entitled to Christmas off. Should employees be required to work on Christmas, they shall be paid under the provisions on overtime. Incentive Program employees shall be entitled to leave when they finish their route on holidays.

  3. HOLIDAYS-PART TIME EMPLOYEES
    1. If a legal holiday falls on a day in which a part-time employee would normally work, he or she shall be entitled to the number hours scheduled to work, off with pay, or if he or she works, the employee is entitled to additional compensation for those hours worked as provided under overtime.

    2. If a part-time employee who works an irregular shift or schedule, works a holiday, she/he shall be compensated in the same manner as a regularly scheduled employee. Holiday hours not worked or scheduled will not be compensated.

  4. FLOATING HOLIDAYS

    1. Full time employees are entitled to 16 hours of floating holiday time with pay, during the fiscal year.

      Incentive Program employees are entitled to two and a half floating holidays (20 hours), for each contract year.

      Floating holidays shall be pro-rated in a manner identical to personal leave in Article VII, Section G for part-time employees.

    2. Any employee hired prior to July 1, 1978, may affix Admissions Day (September 9) and Lincoln's Birthday (February 12) as their floating holidays if they notify the City by June 15th of the previous fiscal year of his or her intentions. If these affixed holidays are designated floaters, the City will in good faith provide minimum staffing. In those work units which nevertheless must remain open, leave in compliance with this Section shall not be denied solely on the basis of the City's need to cover the position with an overtime replacement.
    3. Total floating holiday hours are available for use at the beginning of each fiscal year.
    4. Employees who are not in pay status at the beginning of each fiscal year (not including FMLA or CFRA time) will have their floating holiday hours pro-rated in a manner identical to personal leave in Article VII, Section G upon their return to a paid status.
    5. A Employee will be compensation at their regular hourly rate for unused floating holiday leave under this Section, not to exceed sixteen (16) hours, at the end of each fiscal year.