A.    City-Observed Holidays. Each full-time employee shall receive the following holidays off, with compensation for eight hours at their regular rates of pay, except for the half day on Christmas Eve for which each employee shall receive four hours:

    New Year’ s Day;

    Lincoln’ s Birthday;

    Good Friday;

    Memorial Day;

    Independence Day;

    Labor Day;

    Veterans Day;

    Thanksgiving Day;

    Christmas Day;

    Christmas Eve, half day;

    Personal Leave Day.

    Holidays which fall on an employee’ s regularly scheduled day off may be taken at another time subject to the department head’ s approval.

    The general policy shall be to celebrate a given holiday on Friday or Monday for holidays falling on a Saturday or Sunday, respectively.

    B.    Holiday Pay Administration. An employee who is assigned to work on an observed holiday shall be compensated at time and one-half their regular rate of pay for hours worked.

    Holidays occurring during sick leave will not be counted as sick leave days. (Ord. 1121 § 1 (part), 1993: prior code §§ 10-13-1--10-13-2)

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