§ V. Holidays.
A.
Active, regular full-time employees will be paid for eleven (11) observed holidays. The official holidays are:
1.
New Year's Day;
2.
Martin Luther King's birthday;
3.
Good Friday;
4.
Memorial Day;
5.
Independence Day;
6.
Labor Day;
7.
Veteran's Day;
8.
Thanksgiving Day;
9.
Day after Thanksgiving;
10.
Christmas Eve Day; and
11.
Christmas Day.
B.
If an observed holiday falls on a Saturday, it will be observed by the city on the preceding Friday, and, if any such holiday should fall on a Sunday, it will be observed by the city on the following Monday. However, the city reserves the right to change the observed day in the event that business conditions necessitate such a change.
C.
Holiday pay is defined as the equivalent of an employee's regular rate of pay for the actual working hours regularly scheduled on the day the holiday is observed. An employee must complete the regularly scheduled shift on the day before and the day after the observed holiday to qualify for holiday pay. An employee who is on an approved leave of absence (other than a noncompensated absence), or who is on vacation or who can verify, with a written health care provider's statement, the use of sick leave on the day before or the day after an observed holiday, will be deemed to have met the working requirement in order to qualify for holiday pay.
D.
If a non-exempt employee is required to work on an observed holiday, the employee will be paid holiday pay plus one and one-half (1½) times the employee's regular rate of pay as a bonus for the actual hours worked on the holiday (unless, an alternate holiday work schedule, without the holiday pay bonus, is determined to be agreeable with an employee and the alternate holiday work schedule has the approval of the department director and the director of human resources). If an exempt employee is required to work on an observed holiday, another day off may be awarded and substituted for the required holiday work with the approval of the exempt employee's department director.