Ordinance 25710006.13016
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5/21/86
R: 6/19/86 2571
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON,
AMENDING SECTION 2.35.020 HOLIDAYS TO PROVIDE
FOR EITHER COMPENSATORY TIME OR PAY AT ONE AND
ONE-HALF TIMES THE NORMAL RATE FOR NONEXEMPT
EMPLOYEES WHO SERVE ON HOLIDAYS, SPECIFYING
COMPENSATORY TIME AT A STRAIGHT TIME RATE FOR
EXEMPT EMPLOYEES; AMENDING SECTION 2.35.030
VACATIONS TO PERMIT THE CARRYOVER OF UP TO ONE
YEAR OF VACATION AND PAYMENT FOR VACATION AFTER
SIX MONTHS OF SERVICE; ADDING A NEW SECTION
2.35.090 CONFLICT SPECIFYING THAT IN THE EVENT
OF CONFLICT WITH ANY CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT OR
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT, THAT SUCH
AGREEMENT SHALL PREVAIL AND FIXING A TIME WHEN
THE SAME SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 2.35.020 HOLIDAYS is hereby amended
to read as follows:
2.35.020 HOLIDAYS
A. Each employee shall be entitled to one day away
from service for each of the following holidays:
January 1 (New Year's Day)
February 12 (Lincoln's Birthday)
Third Monday of February (Washington's
Birthday)
Last Monday of May (Memorial Day)
July 4 (Anniversary of Declaration of
Independence)
First Monday in September (Labor Day)
November 11 (Veterans Day)
Fourth Thursday of November (Thanksgiving
Day)
Day immediately following Thanksgiving Day
December 25 (Christmas Day)
An additional "floating" holiday.
The floating holiday shall be provided in
accordance with the rules and regulations of the
personnel manual promulgated and approved by the
Mayor.
B. Each employee who, because of the nature of his/
her service, serves on a holiday, shall be
compensated in accordance with the following
provisions:
1. Employees classified as nonexempt shall, at
his/her option, be compensated for work on
that holiday either by payment for such work
at the overtime rate of pay or, may, at
his/her election receive an equivalent amount
of compensatory time off at a date convenient
to the City. Such day away from service
shall be set at a date mutually agreed upon,
but shall be set within twelve months of the
holiday served. Such rate of pay shall not
be pyramided in the event that any hours
worked are subject to the overtime provisions
of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
2. Exempt employees shall be permitted one full
day away from service with full pay on a day
which he/she would otherwise have served.
Such day off shall be scheduled at a date
mutually agreed upon within twelve months of
the holiday served.
C. No employee shall be called to work on any holiday
for less than a full day of work. When any of the
aforementioned holidays falls on a Sunday, the
Monday following shall be considered the holiday.
If the holiday occurs during an employee's
vacation, he/she shall receive the holiday pay in
addition to his/her vacation pay.
D. Nothing in this section shall be construed to have
the effect of adding or deleting the number of
paid holidays provided for in any existing
agreement between the City and any group or groups
of employees of the City.
If any of the legal holidays set forth in this
section are also federal legal holidays but
observed on different dates, only the holiday
occurring on the date specified shall be
recognized as a paid legal holiday. In no case
shall both be recognized as paid legal holidays
for employees.
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Section 2. ECC 2.35.030 Vacations is hereby amended to
read as follows:
2.35.030 VACATIONS
A. Each empoyee shall accrue the following amount of
vacation leave with pay depending on the length of
continuous service:
1. Five days of vacation after six months of
continuous service;
2. Ten days of vacation after one full year of
continous service;
3. Fifteen days of vacation after six full years
of continous service;
4. Twenty days of vacation after twelve full
years of continuous service.
B. Employees are encouraged to use their accumulated
vacation time within the year in which it is
earned. Vacation accumulation of up to one year
may be carried over from one year to the next.
C. Vacation schedules must be submitted by each
department not later than March 1 of each year.
The schedules will be submitted by the mayor's
administrative assistant to the mayor for his
approval, and thereafter will be made available to
all employees.
D. Any employee whose service is honorably terminated
after the completion of six (6) months of
continous service shall be paid for any vacation
time accumulated prior to the effective date of
termination.
Section 3. Chapter 2.35 is hereby amended by the
addition of a new paragraph 2.35.090 to read as follows:
2.35.090 CONFLICT
In the event that any provision of this Chapter 2.35 or
any provision of this Title II shall conflict with any
provision of a employment contract or collective
bargaining agreement approved by the City Council, such
contract or agreement shall prevail. In no event shall
any employee be entitled to claim greater benefits
under this Chapter than those provided for by a
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collective bargaining agreement or employee contract
covering said individual's employment.
Section 3. This ordinance, being an administrative
action, is not subject to referendum and shall take effect five
(5) days after publication of the attached, approved summary.
APPROVED:
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MAYOR, LA R S. NAUGHTEN
ATTEST/AUTHENTICATED:
CI Y CLERK, JACQUELINE PARRETT
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY:
BY
FILED WITH THE Cf'fiY CLERIC: June 23, 1986
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: July 1, 1986
PUBLISHED: July 6, 1986
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 11, 1986
ORDINANCE NO. 2571
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STATE OF WASHINGTON,
COUNTY OF SNOHOIViISH,
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APPROVED BY THE City
Council of their meeting of July
1, 1986.
ARRETT NE G.
City Clerk
i Published: July 6, 1986. —
Affidavit of Publication
The undersigned, being first duly sworn on oath deposes and says
that she is Principal Clerk of THE HERALD, a daily newspaper
printed and published in the City of Everett, County of Snohomish,
and State of Washington; that said newspaper is a newspaper of
general circulation in said County and State; that said newspaper
has been approved as a legal newspaper by order of the Superior
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a printed copy of which is hereunto attached, was published in said
newspaper proper and not in supplement form, in the regular and
entire edition of said paper on the following days and times, namely:
July 6, 1986
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and that said newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers
during all of--faid period.
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