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ARTICLE Xl

 

HOLIDAYS

 

SECTION 1. Legal Holidays with pay shall include: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans' Day, Thanksgiving Day, Day after Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. (Lincoln's Birthday, Good Friday, and Election Day shall be floating holidays with minimum staffing of 50% in each County department.) Employees who work on Lincoln's Birthday, Good Friday, or Election Day shall receive an "in lieu of day" which shall be taken before the succeeding Lincoln's Birthday, Good Friday or Election Day. Employees in Community Corrections, Fire Control/911 and Golden Hill Health Care Center shall work a normal staffing schedule on floating holidays.

 

When such a holiday falls on a Saturday, County employees shall be granted the Friday preceding; and, when a holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday shall be given off as the paid holiday. If a County department cannot legally close on such a Friday or Monday, employees deprived of such a holiday will be given commensurate time off.

 

This substitution will not apply to Community Corrections, Fire Control/911 and Golden Hill Health Care Center employees whose regular work week includes the Saturday or Sunday on which the holiday actually occurs. Those employees' holidays will be the actual holiday. If a holiday falls on a day when classes are in

session at the Community College, the College’s Labor/Management Committee will determine when the Community College employees will observe that holiday; if no agreement to the alternate day, the agreement will prevail.

SECTION 2.  When an employee is required to work on a Saturday or Sunday, overtime rules shall apply. However, an employee whose normal work week includes Saturday and/or Sunday shall be granted two consecutive days off each week.

 

When a full-time employee is required to work on a holiday, such employee shall be compensated at the overtime rate for all hours worked and in addition, such employee shall be given commensurate time off. In lieu of commensurate time off, the employee can be paid out upon the employee’s request. Highway employees who are required to work on a holiday shall be paid eight hours of holiday pay plus one and one half times the regular rate of pay for hours actually worked.

 

Part-time employees (20 or more hours per week on a regular basis) of Community Corrections, Fire

Control/911 and Golden Hill Health Care Center who work on a holiday, shall receive time and one half for hours so worked.

 

SECTION 3. None of these regulations shall be construed as preventing the County Legislature from granting employees such additional days off with pay as it may duly authorize by resolution.