A. 
All City employees, except building tradesmen in any departments whose rate of pay is determined according to the wages being paid to nonmunicipal union building tradesmen in private industry in the City and members of the Police and Fire Departments for whom provision is made by other laws, shall be entitled to a holiday with pay on each of the 11 legal holidays enumerated in this section.
[Amended 6-7-2021]
New Year's Day
Martin Luther King's Birthday
Washington's Birthday
Patriots' Day
Memorial Day
Juneteenth Independence Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Veterans' Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
B. 
Holidays occurring on Sunday will be celebrated on Monday; holidays occurring on Saturday will be celebrated on Friday. For the purpose of this article, the "celebrated" day (i.e., Friday or Monday) becomes the holiday rather than the actual holiday.
C. 
Any employee required to work on a holiday will be paid for the hours worked plus a day's pay for the holiday. No compensating time off for work performed on a holiday shall be authorized.
D. 
Any employee who works five or more days a week and whose regular day off falls on any of the aforementioned holidays shall be paid for the holiday.
E. 
When a holiday occurs during an employee's regular scheduled vacation, he shall be granted an additional day's vacation, as determined by the employee's department head.
F. 
In order to receive pay for any of the holidays enumerated above in this section, an employee must actually work on his last scheduled working day immediately preceding and his first scheduled working day immediately following the holiday in question.
All City employees shall receive their regular rates of pay while actually serving on jury duty, reduced, however, by the amount received by them from the authority which pays them for such jury duty.
A municipal employee shall be granted bereavement leave under the following conditions:
A. 
He shall submit proof of relationship and death satisfactory to his department head, whereupon he shall be granted bereavement leave with full pay not to exceed three regularly scheduled consecutive working days; such leave shall not extend more than one day beyond the date of the funeral of the deceased relative.
B. 
For the purposes of this section, leave with pay shall be granted on the death of a husband, wife, mother, father, son, daughter, brother, sister, grandfather, and grandmother of either the employee or his spouse; or any relative of the employee or his spouse who was actually living in the immediate household of the employee at the time of death or at the commencement of the final illness or accident.
C. 
Bereavement leave is to be separate from, and shall not be charged to, sick leave or vacation leave.
[Amended 3-30-1995]
A. 
An employee shall have the limited option to use up to three days annually of the unused sick leave accumulated pursuant to Article V herein in the form of personal leave.
B. 
An employee who fails to exercise the option for the full amount of days hereunder in any one calendar year will not accumulate from year to year the option exercised in that calendar year.
C. 
Such personal leave shall be granted by the employer at such time as in its opinion will cause the least interference with the performance of the regular work of the City.
[Amended 3-30-1995]
A. 
The calendar year is hereby broken down to consist of three incentive periods:
(1) 
Period One: the period between January 1 and April 30, inclusive.
(2) 
Period Two: the period between May 1 and August 31, inclusive.
(3) 
Period Three: the period between September 1 and December 31, inclusive.
B. 
An employee who is not absent more than one day due to a disqualifying absence or who is tardy not more than three instances in excess of 15 minutes per instance in an incentive period shall earn an incentive day that incentive period.
C. 
Such earned incentive day shall be taken within the next succeeding incentive period. There shall be no accumulation of an earned incentive day to any succeeding incentive period. Such incentive leave shall be granted by the employer at such a time as in its opinion will cause the least interference with the performance of the regular work of the City. In no event will days earned be convertible into monetary buyback.
D. 
For purposes hereunder, the following are to be categorized as disqualifying absences:
(1) 
Absence due to sick leave beyond one day in the incentive period.
(2) 
Absence due to workmens' compensation lost time within a period.
(3) 
Absence due to unauthorized leave within a period.
(4) 
Absence due to a leave of absence or maternity leave within a period.
E. 
For purposes hereunder, the following are to be categorized as qualifying absences:
(1) 
An absence due to authorized vacation leave or a day taken pursuant to this program.
(2) 
An absence due to jury duty.
(3) 
An absence due to authorized bereavement leave.
(4) 
An absence due to holiday leave.
(5) 
An absence due to personal leave.
(6) 
An absence due to authorized military leave, authorized time for civil service examination, and time lost to attend an industrial accident board meeting.