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RESOLUTION NO. 97-�� �
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDDING
AMEIYDING THE CITY OF REDDING EMPLOYEE BENEFIT �OLICIES,
EFFECTIVE APRIL 6, 1997, BY MODIFYING THE VACATION POLICY.
WHEREAS, the City Council has studied the current City of Redding Employee Benefit
Policies for unrcpresented employees establishcd by Resolution No. 96-62; and
WHEREAS, for thc reasons set forth in the accompanying Rcport to City Council, thc
Human Resources Manager has rccommended that thc vacation policy, which is included in the City
of Rcdding Employee Benefit Policies for unrepresented employees, be modified; and
WHEREAS, the City Council deems it to be in the best intere5ts of the City to adopt such
recommendation, effective April 6, 1997;
NOW,THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED by thc City Council that the vacation
policy, which is included in the City of Reddin� Ernployee Bcnefit Policies for unrepresented
employces, established by Rcsolution No. 96-62, be repealed as of midnight April 5, 1997; and a new
vacation policy for unrcpresented employees be cstabli�hed as set forth in Exhibit A, effective April 6,
1997.
1 HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was introduced, read, and adopted at
a regular meeting of the City Council of thc City of Redding on the 1 st day of April 1997, by the
following votc:
AYES• COUNCIL MEMBERS: P- Anderson, R. Anderson, Murray and McGeorge
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Kehoe
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
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Resolution No. 97- , Page 20 EXHIBIT A
Date Adopted: April 1, 1997
Date Effective: April 6, 1997
VACATIONS
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, Regular, probationary, and part-time regular employees of the City shall
accrue vacations with pay up to 500 hours (Fire Management twenty four (24) hour shift
employees shall accrue vacation pay up to 700 hours)as follows:
A) At the rate of thirty-nine thousandths (.039) of an hour for each regular hour worked,
or on paid leave, from the date of employment through the one hundred fourth
(104th) full pay period of employment. (Accrual rate approximately two (2) weeks per
year up to four (4) years of services.)
B) At the rate of fifty-eight thousandths (.058) of an hour for each regular hour worked,
or on paid leave, from the one hundred fourth (104th) full pay period through the two
hundred thirty-fourth (234th) full pay period of employment. (Accrual rate
approximately three (3) weeks per year after four (4) years of service.)
C) At the rate of sixty-eight thousandths (.068) of an hour for each regular hour worked,
or on paid leave, from the two hundred thirty-fourth (234th) full pay period through the
three hundred sixty-fourth (364th) full pay period of employment. (Accrual rate
approximately three and one-half (3-1/2) weeks per year after nine (9) years of
services.)
D) At the rate of seventy-seven thousandths (.077) of an hour for each regular hour
worked, or on paid leave, from the three hundred sixty-fourth (364th) full pay period
of employment through the four hundred ninety-fourth (494th) full pay period of
employment. (Accrual rate approximately four (4) weeks per year after fourteen (14)
years of service.)
E) At the rate of eighty-seven thousandths (.087) of an hour for each regular hour
worked, or on paid leave, from the four hundred ninety-fourth (494th) full pay period
through the six hundred twenty-fourth (624th) full pay period of employment.
(Accrual rate approximately four and one-half (4-1/2) weeks per year after nineteen
(19) years of service.)
F) At the rate of ninety-six thousandths (.096) of an hour for each regular hour worked,
or on paid leave, from and after the six hundred twenty-fourth (624th) full pay period
of employment. (Accrual rate approximately five (5) weeks per year after twenty-four
(24) years of service.)
G) A full pay period as used herein is defined as one in which the employee works or is
paid for time off for at least half of the regularly scheduled work hours.
H) For purposes of establishing the number of pay periods and therefore the vacation
accrual rate as set forth in (A) through (F) above, previous periods of full-time regular
employment with the City shall be used, including probationary periods which
resulted in attainment of regular employee status.
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Resolution No. 97- , Page 21
Date Adopted: April 1, 1997
Date Effective: April 6, 1997
I) Effective January 1, 1991, the maximum vacation time which can be accrued by a
regular employee is five hundred (500) hours.
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J �) In the event of departmental cancellation of a previously scheduled vacation or of a
paid leave of absence due to industrial injury where such employee would exceed the
maximum vacation accrual, the accumulation of vacation hours may exceed the five
hundred (500) hours maximum. In the event of a paid leave of absence due to an
illness or injury that is not job related, the City Manager may approve the
accumulation of vacation hours in excess of the five hundred (500) hours maximum.
Whenever such excess accruals occur, the employee shall have one year from the
date the vacation was canceled or from the date the employee returns to work from
illness or injury to utilize the excess accrual. Any excess accrual that remains at the
end of such period shall be forfeited.
2. �4} It is City policy that employees take their normal vacation each year at such time or times -
as may be approved by the Department.
3 �. Vacation cannot be accrued while an employee is in a non-pay status.
4 3. Vacations will be scheduled throughout the calendar year. Employees with greater seniority
will be given preference over those with less seniority in the selection of a vacation period,
provided, however, that if the senior employee splits his/her vacation by requesting less than
a full year's allowance to be scheduled on consecutive workdays, the employee's preferential
rights shall only apply on one period in that calendar year prior to all other employees being
given consideration in the selection of their first choice vacation period.
5 �. The City shall not require an employee to take vacation in lieu of sick leave or leave of
absence on account of illness.
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. If an employee is off on vacation or sick leave
on a fixed holiday the holidaXcredit will be used and the vacation deferred. If an emplovee
is off on vacation or sick leave on a deferred holiday sick or vacation balances will be used
and the holiday credit will be deferred.
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Resolution No. 97- , Page 22
Date Adopted: April 1, 1997
Date Effective: April 6, 1997
7 6. For exempt employees, absences of deductions for less than a day shall be made. For
twenty four 24 hour shift employees the definition of a work day shall be 24 hours.
8 �. Employees whose employment with the City is terminated for any reason shall, at the time
of termination, receive pay for any unused vacation period previously earned.
g $. , Whenever an� employee has accrued one hundred twenty
(120) hours or more vacation allowance as set forth in Section 1 (A-H), the City will, at the
employee's option, compensate the employee for up to forty (40) hours of accumulated
vacation during any fiscal year. ; , Whenever any employee
has accrued two hundred forty (240) hours or more of vacation allowance as set forth in
� Section 1 (A-H), the City will, at the employee's option, compensate the employee for up to
eighty (80) hours of accumulated vacation during any fiscal year. For twenty-four (24) hour
shift employees, an em�lovee with one hundred sixty eight (1681 hours of accrued vacation
may opt to be com�ensated for fifty six (56) hours of that leave per fiscal year. Twentv four
j24� hour shift employees with three hundred thirtv six (336) hours of leave mav opt to be
compensated for one hundred twelve (112� hours accrued vacation leave.
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10 9. Whenever any employee has exhausted allpaid time off benefits as a result of non-work
related injurv or disability and is not eligible for the City's lona term disabilitv insurance
benefits other emploXees may contribute their vacation credits to the disabled emplovee with
vacation credits being donated and.granted on the basis of the dollar value of the vacation
credits.
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