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525 SECTION 14 - BENEFITS AND SERVICES FOR EMPLOYEES SECTION 14.01— Holidays New Years Day, Martin Luther King's Birthday, Good Friday, Memorial Day, July 4', Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and the Friday following, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are observed as official holidays for all City employees in accordance with the following policies: A. As many employees as possible are given each holiday off consistent with the maintenance .of essential City functions. Except for Civil Service and Emergency Medical, Services, employees in departments whose duties require the conduct of scheduled work on holidays, receive additional leave days to equal the number of holidays worked. Civil Service and Emergency Medical Services employees receive holiday leave equal to the number of holidays worked. B. Full -time, regular employees are entitled to paid holidays. Part-time regular employees who would normally have worked on the day of the week observed as a holiday are paid for the number of hours they would have worked had the holiday not occurred. Temporary employees are granted unpaid holidays. C. If a regularly scheduled holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the holiday is taken on a Friday or Monday respectively. D. If an employee is absent from work due to illness on the day before or the day after an authorized holiday, the Department Head may require that the employee'present a doctor's statement confirming the illness, before the employee receives pay for the holiday. E. An employee on leave of absence without pay status on the scheduled work day immediately preceding or following a holiday is not paid for the holiday. F. Employees desiring to observe religious holidays not coinciding with official holidays are given time off without pay or may be authorized to use accrued vacation leave. SECTION 14.02 - Compensatory Leave Non - exempt employees other than Civil Service and Emergency Medical Services who physically work in excess of 40 hours in the work week can earn compensatory leave. Civil Service Fire and Emergency Medical Services staff who physically work more than 212 hours in a 28 -day pay cycle can earn compensatory leave. Civil Service Police staff can earn compensatory leave when they physically work more than 80 hours in a pay period. Employees who work overtime will earn 1 %2 hours of compensatory leave for -each hour worked with a maximum accrual of 80 hours. Compensato =y leave cannot be transferred. Employees should receive prior authorization from supervisor prior to taking compensatory leave. Employees who terminate employment will be paid for any compensatory leave balance. 31 Revised 01 -25 -05