HomeMy WebLinkAbout1576 AN ORDINANCE establishing a work week for certain city departments, estab-
lishing official holidays, vacation periods, sick leave and establishing official
pay days for all'city departments.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON [FOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. That employees of all city departments of the City of Bremerton
excepting the ~ire Department, Police Department and clerical and supervisory
employees and employees employed in supervisory capacity, or on special or split
shift assignments, shall be paid on an hourly basis at a rate per hour to be
fixed by the City Council of the bity of Bremerton for a regular work week and
shall be paid for all time worked over f~ve 8-hour days at a rate of one and one-
half their regular hourly wage. All time worked over and above the regular work
week shall be overtime. The minimum of time or overtime paid any such employee,
when called, for duty after his departure from the city's premises, shall be one
hour. Employees employed on an hourly basis shall be paid only for time acturall~
worked; except for vacation and si~k leave allowances hereinafter provided for,
under Section 5 and 8.
Section 2. As used in this Ordinance, for hourly rated employees, the
following terms shall have the following meanings:
1. "Day's work" shall mean 8 hours of work or any assigned shift.
2. "Work week" shall mean 40 hours of work composed of five 8-hour days
per week on a regular tour of duty.
3. "Overtime" shall be construed as any time worked at the request of
proper authority over and above the regular tour of duty.
Section 3. As used in this Ordinance, excepting employees of the Police and
Fire Departments, for monthly-rated employees, the terms "regular tour of duty",
or "required days' work" shall mean that assignment of days and hours necessary
to complete the employee's regularly assigned duties, limited to 8 hours actual
service in any one day, and to forty (40) hours of service in any one week, or
to the equivalent thereof. Where necessary, in order to properly serve the
interests of the City, a monthly rated employee may be assigned to 8 hours of
service within a spread of some greater number of ho~rs.
Section 4. Whenever any employee of the City of Bremerton employed in a
clerical or supervisory capacity at a monthly salary shall, at the request of
any elective official of the City of Bremerton, perform services for the C~.ty
of Bremerton in addition to his regularly assigned duties, outside ~f his regular
tour of duty or required days work, such elective official shall have the authorit
to reimburse such employee for such additional services from any funds appropriate
or set aside for said purpose, at a rate to be determined by said elective officis
Section 5. Holidays. The fol!owing holidays are hereby adopted as legal
-holidays for the ~ity of Bremerton: New Year's Day, ~ashington's Birthday,
Decoration Day, the Fcurth of July, Labor Day, November llth, Thanksgiving Day
and Christmas Day. Employees employed on sn hourly basis shall be paid at the
rate of one and one-half times their regular hourly rate whenever they shall be
required to work on any legal holidays.
Section 6. Vacation. Every employee of the Otty of Bremerton shall be
entitled to a vacation period of one work week after six months of continuous
service, or two work weeks after one year of continuous service, providing that
such vacation shall not be cu~ulatlve. All vacation allowances shall be shown as
such on the City p~.yrolls. No compensation shall be allowed for vacation not
taken.
Section 7. Sick Leave. Cumulative sick leave with pay at the rate of
ten work days per year shall be granted to all officers and employees of the
City of Bremerton. The total accumulation of sick leave shall not exceed twenty
wot days at ful~ pay. An initial accumulation of sick leave shall be granted
to all such offigers and employees at the rate of ten work days per year for
each year of prior service, against which, shall be charged all sick leave actuall~
taken heretofore. The maximum of such initial accumulation would be twenty
working days. Compensation for any absence because of illness or disability
incapacitating any officer of employee for the performance of duty shall be paid
and shown as such on the City payrolls, provided, that the elective official in
charge or the secretary examiner of the Civil Service Conm~isslon may require
proof that such absence was justified by reason of illness or disability.
Section'8. The official City pay day shall be on the 5th and 20th days
of each month, at which time all city employees shall be paid for their services
for the last preceding pay period. A pay period shall be from the 1st to the
15th and from the 16th to the last day of each month..
Ordinance No. 1578 (cont)
Section 9. The rates of p~.y of all City employees shall be established
according to the work performed and the rates established in the annual City
budget, as supplemented by any legally established salary Ordinance, and no
rate shall be changed, nor shall the timekeeper and payroll department recognize
any change in rate of any employee, unless said change has been presented to the
City Commission and approved in writing by two of the three City Commissioners.
Section 10. This Ordinance shall be e£fe6tive 30 days after final passage
and publication, except that Section l, shall not be enforced until January l, 19~.
Approved unanimously by the City Council of the City of Bremerton on f~rst
reading, this 8th day of September, 1944.
PASSED by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton in regular session
assembled, signed by the Mayor, and attested by the City $1erk in authentication
of such passage this 13th day of September, 1944.
Mayor
ATTEST:
~Ctty~Clerk