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City of Springfield, MA
Hampden County
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A. 
All employees of the City regularly employed, other than employees whose vacations are governed either by MGL c. 41, § 111, 111A, 111D, 111G, or 111G 1/2, or teachers, shall be granted an annual vacation of not less than two weeks without loss of pay; provided, however, that all employees who have a total period of five years in the aggregate shall be granted an annual vacation of three weeks without loss of pay; provided, further, that employees who have a total period of 10 years or more in the aggregate shall be granted an annual vacation of four weeks without loss of pay; and provided, further, that employees who have a total period of 20 years or more in the aggregate shall be granted an annual vacation of five weeks without loss of pay.
B. 
Such vacations shall be granted by the heads of the respective departments of the City at such time as in their opinion will cause the least interference with the performance of the regular work of the City.
C. 
A person shall be deemed to be "regularly employed" within the meaning of this section if he has actually worked for the City for 30 weeks during the 12 months preceding the first day of June in such year.
A. 
All employees of the City regularly employed and who shall be entitled to an annual vacation, including employees whose vacations are covered by MGL c. 41, §§ 111, 111A, 111D and 111G, but who are unable to take their vacations because of sickness or injury, whether or not such sickness or injury occurs in the course of their employment, shall be entitled to said vacation in the succeeding year, and shall be granted such vacation by the heads of the respective departments of the City at such time as in their opinions will cause the least interference with the performance of the regular work of the City.
B. 
A person shall be deemed to be "regularly employed" within the meaning of this section if he has actually worked for the City for 30 weeks during the 12 months preceding the first day of June in such year.
An employee who has been employed for six months, but whose employment does not meet the definition of "regularly employed" in § 73-24B, shall, after June 1 in a given calendar year, be granted paid vacation leave of 1/3 working day, with fractional days disregarded, for each continuous full week he has actually worked for the City during the 12 months preceding the first of June in such year, but in no case to exceed 10 working days.
A. 
Whenever the employment of any person subject to § 73-23 is terminated during a year by dismissal through no fault or delinquency on his part or by resignation, retirement or death, without his having been granted the vacation to which he is entitled under such section, he or, in case of his death, his beneficiary, shall be paid at the regular rate of compensation payable to him at the termination of his employment an amount in lieu of such vacation; provided that no monetary or other allowance has already been made therefor.
B. 
The word "beneficiary," as used in this section, means the surviving beneficiary or beneficiaries, if any, lawfully designated by the employee under the retirement system of which he is a member or, if there is no such designated beneficiary, the estate of the deceased.
C. 
The official head of the department in which the person was last employed shall enter on the departmental payroll all amounts payable under this section.