1. General Non-management Employees.General non-management employees who are authorized to work on the City holidays set forth in Section 12.04, which would otherwise be a normal duty day, shall only be compensated in cash or compensatory time off at the overtime rate for the number of hours worked. When a non-management general employee is required to work on a holiday which would be their scheduled day off, they shall be compensated in cash or compensatory time off at the overtime rate for the number of hours worked and accrue holiday time for the same number of hours worked.

2. Management Employees.Executive Management and Management personnel, who are authorized by their supervisor to work on City holidays, shall be compensated in cash or in time off at the employee’s straight time base rate of pay for actual hours worked. The employee may elect to retain the bank of accrued compensatory time off for use until June 30 of the current fiscal year, when all accrued holiday time is paid off in cash. If the employee is promoted or reclassified, the rate used for calculation of the accrued holiday shall be the employee’s regular rate of pay at the time the holiday time was earned.

3. Police Employees - Non-management.Sworn police department personnel shall be compensated in cash or holiday time off at the base straight-time rate of pay for all hours worked on a City holiday.

4. Fire Employees - Non-management.Fire operations personnel shall be compensated for 104 hours annually of holiday time. This represents thirteen (13) eight (8) hour days. At each quarter year interval, fire operations personnel shall be able to elect from two options in regard to the method of compensation. The two options are:

If an employee has reached the maximum accrual in their compensatory time off bank, then all hours will automatically be paid. All pay and accrual time will be recorded on the second pay period of the month (16th to end of the month). New employees will have holiday hours pro-rated according to the number of remaining holidays in the year from their date of hire.

5.The maximum accumulation bank of holiday time shall be forty (40) hours. For non-management Fire personnel, the maximum accrual bank for holiday time and compensatory time off (overtime) shall be as described in the Fire Memorandum of Understanding.

6.Employees must be in a paid status on the day before and after a holiday in order to be compensated for the holiday.