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329 <br />ORDINANCE NS-2232 <br />Page 31 <br /> <br />Absence on sick leave for a period in excess of fifteen (15) <br />consecutive calendar days shall not be considered as service for <br />vacation accrual purposes. <br /> <br /> Sworn members of the police department and uniformed members <br />of the fire department assigned to the normal five-day work week <br />schedule are granted regular vacation on the same basis as other <br />full-time employees, as set forth in the preceding paragraph. <br /> <br /> Uniformed members of the fire department assigned to the <br />twenty-four-hour shift schedule are granted regular vacation on the <br />same basis as other full-time employees, except that their standard <br />work unit is a working day of twelve (12) hours. Therefore, each <br />sworn fire department employee in this category is granted regular <br />vacation at an annual rate of fifteen (15), twelve-hour working <br />days. In those cases when an employee is transferred between <br />twenty-four-hour shift and normal five-day work week schedules, the <br />employee's earned vacation, which is accrued in hours, shall be <br />converted to agree with the number of working hours per day in the <br />currently assigned schedule. <br /> <br />Sec. 9-131. Computing regular vacation. <br /> <br /> In computing regular vacation, each municipal holiday that <br />occurs during the vacation and that falls on a day which the <br />employee would have worked had he or she not been on vacation, <br />shall be deducted from the computation so that one additional day <br />of regular vacation shall be allowed to the employee unless <br />departmental practice provides some other manner of compensating <br />for municipal holidays. Should an employee be confined to a <br />hospital for sickness or injury while on authorized vacation, each <br />full day of such confinement, when confirmed by a physician's <br />statement and upon department head approval, may be deducted from <br />the computation of vacation expended and charged against the <br />employee's accumulated sick leave. <br /> <br /> No employee may accumulate more than the equivalent of one <br />regular vacation period from the previous year, and vacation not <br />taken beyond that amount is forfeited. A regular vacation period is <br />defined as the maximum of vacation earned in a calendar year as <br />provided in section 9-130 of this Code. No employee shall have a <br />right to accumulate or split his or her vacation, but the same may <br />be allowed or required by the department head. The time at which an <br />employee shall take his or her vacation shall be determined by his <br />or her department head, with due regard for the wishes of the <br />employee and particular regard for the needs of the service. It is <br />the policy of the city to grant employees vacations in order to <br />provide them a break in their regular work schedule. In the <br />administration of the provisions of this section the department <br />head shall be guided by this stated purpose and he or she must <br />approve in writing any accumulation of regular vacation. <br /> <br />31 <br /> <br /> <br />