HomeMy WebLinkAbout3237 by Ordinances 2267, 2386, 2935 and 3025 relating
to vacation and sick leave for City employees.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
SECTION 1. Section 7, 14, 17a, 17b, L7c and Section 23
of Ordinance No. 1813 are amended as follows:
"Section 7. Sick Leave. Accumulative sick leave with
pay at the rate of 96 hours per year accruing with each hour of
vacation, sick leave and regular work recorded shall be granted
to all officers and employees in the classified civil service,
except under circumstances whereby members of the Police and Fire
Departments are affected by their respective pension and relief
associations as established by state law. The total accumulation
of sick leave shall not exceed 960 hours at full pay. Upon
retirement an employee shall be paid thirty-five percent of
accumulated sick leave up to a maximum payment of 336 hours.
In the event of death of an employee, the estate shall be paid
for the total of the employee's accumulated sick leave up to
960 hours.
a. Beginning with the sixth year of City employment,
for each year in which 32 hours or less sick leave is taken,
eight hours shall be added to the employee's vacation leave.
"Section 14. Minimum Sick Leave Pay. Minimum Sick
Leave'Pay shall be in increments of one-half hour for each one-
half hour or fraction thereof of absence.
"Section 17a. Vacation Leave. Vacation leave with pay
shall accrue at the rate of one hundred four hours per year for
the first five years of employment. During the sixth year of
employment each employee shall accrue one hundred twenty hours
of vacation leave with pay and thereafter an additional eight
hours per year to a maximum of two hundred ~ight hours per year;
provided that employees of the Police and Fire Departments shall
receive as compensation for working on holidays an additional
eighty-eight hours per year. Accrual shall start on the date of
employment but Vacation Leave with pay shall not be allowed until
after six months of service. Accrual rates shall be adjusted
on the first day of each calendar year beginning on the first of
the year in which the employee completes five years of service
and shall remain in effect throughout the calendar year. The
accrual rates for each employee for the calendar year will be
computed on the basis of the employee's anniversary date. If an
employee resigns or is discharged before completion of six months
of service, any accrued vacation is forfeited. No vacation
leave shall accrue to temporary employees, seasonal or extra.
"Section 17b. Maximum Carryover. Maximum carryover
at the end of any calendar year of the first five years of City
employment shall be one hundred sixty hours. Carryover for those
employees with more than five years service shall be a maximum
of two hundred forty hours; provided however that additional
carryover vacation leave may be granted at the discretion of the
City Council taking into consideration the length of service of
the requesting employee, the recommendations of the Department
Head and the Civil Service Commission and the special merit of
the request.
"Section 17c. Fire Department Leave. Vacation Leave
for Fire Department personnel working under the three platoon
schedule will be taken by shifts. It shall be charged out in
blocks of twenty-four hours.
"Section 23. Terminal Leave. Prior to retirement
or voluntary separation an employee is entitled to take leave
with pay up to the maximum amount of vacation the employee has
accrued. The employee may at his option choose not to take
the entire amount of his accrued vacation in which case he is
entitled to a lump sum payment of wages equal to no more than
one hundred sixty hours at the rate of pay which he was receiving
on the date of retirment or separation. In the case of death
of an employee, his estate is entitled to payment for the
full amount of accrued vacation at the rate of pay which the
employee was receiving at the date of death. An employee
separated for cause shall not be entitled to the benefits under
this section.
APPROVED by the City Council on the first reading this
day of July, 1975.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton,
signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authenti-
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cation of such passage this~;~ day of ~~ , 1975.
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ATTEST:
, ~ M~"R6~i D~ity Clerk