SANTA ANA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (2014-2015)

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ARTICLE IX 9.0 VACATION 9.1 Purpose. It is the policy of the City to grant employees vacation leave in order to provide them with a break in their regular work schedule and this purpose will be used as a guide in the administration of the provisions of this Article. 9.2 Regular Vacation Period. A. Regular vacation with pay is granted to each full -time permanent or probationary employee, at the rate of fifteen (15) working days for each completed year of service, accrued at the rate of ten (10) working hours for each completed month of service. B. An employee who has completed less than one year's service during the calendar year shall receive a proportionate fraction in accordance with the amount of service to his or her credit during the year; provided, however, no employee shall be entitled to, or receive payment for, any vacation until he or she has completed six (6) months of continuous service. C. On or after the first (1s) day of the month following completion of six (6) months of continuous full -time service, an employee may be allowed to take all or a proportionate fraction of his or her earned vacation, subject to scheduling approval of the employee's supervisor. D. Vacation time off may be taken in increments as small as one -half (1/2) hour, with fractional usage rounded upward to the next higher multiple of one -half (1/2). E. Upon completion of two (2) years of continuous service, each employee must take at least five (5) consecutive working days of vacation each year thereafter. F. Computation of Regular Vacation. 1. In computing regular vacation, each municipal holiday that occurs during the vacation, and that falls on a day which the employee would have worked had he or she not been on vacation, shall be deducted from the computation so that one (1) additional day of regular vacation shall be allowed to the employee unless departmental practice provides some other manner of 23