Alameda Municipal Code § 25-3 Vacations

All officials and employees in the continuous and regular employment of the City, except sworn members of the Fire Department, whose compensation is fixed on a monthly basis, and who shall have been in the service of the City for not less than one (1) year, and all employees employed on a per them basis who have been employed by the City for at least two hundred twenty-five (225) days during the twelve-month period immediately preceding the commencement of the vacation shall be allowed:

a. In each calendar year, a vacation with pay of ten (10) regularly scheduled working days, computed on the basis of a five (5) day work week.

b. After five (5) years of service with the City, computed as in this subsection provided, the officials and employees shall be allowed annually a vacation with pay of fifteen (15) regularly scheduled working days, computed on the basis of a five (5) day work week. The officials and employees shall be allowed an additional one-half (½) day of paid vacation leave annually beginning with the sixth year of service with the City and terminating upon the completion of the fifteenth year of service with the City.

c. After fifteen (15) years of service with the City, computed as in this subsection provided, the officials and employees shall be allowed annually a vacation with pay of twenty (20) regularly scheduled working days, computed on the basis of a five (5) day work week.

d. After the completion of twenty (20) years of service with the City, computed as in this subsection provided, the officials and employees shall be allowed one (1) additional day of paid vacation leave annually and terminating upon the completion of the twenty-fifth year of service with the City.

If a holiday other than Saturday, Sunday or Easter Sunday occurs within the vacation period of any official or employee hereinabove mentioned, the official or employee shall be granted additional vacation time to compensate for such holiday or holidays, excepting that, in the case of all employees of the Police and Fire Departments other than the Chiefs of the Departments and clerks, stenographers and other civilians employed therein, the Chiefs of the Departments may determine that, in lieu of additional vacation time, the employees will be paid additional compensation at the straight time daily rate of one twenty-first and sixty-seven hundredths (1/21.67) of their regular monthly salaries for each holiday occurring as aforesaid.

(Ord. No. 535 N.S. § 2-541; Ord. No. 1654 N.S.; Ord. No. 1744 N.S.)

In computing such time of employment, credit shall be given for all time such official or employee was absent from duty on sick leave, under the provisions of Section 25-2 of this chapter, and for leave of absence, not exceeding thirty (30) days, while he/she was in active service in the State Militia or in the military or naval service of the United States. The words two (2) weeks shall mean the number of working days an employee would ordinarily work in a normal two (2) week period on which there occurs no holiday.

(Ord. No. 535 N.S. § 2-542; Ord. No. 1035 N.S.)

In the event that any such official or employee shall leave the service of the City, if he/she be then entitled to a vacation under the foregoing provisions, he/she shall be paid for the vacation period to which he/she was then entitled, provided, however, that in the case of an official or employee who shall have been dismissed from the service of the City, it shall be within the discretion of the head of the department in which he/she was employed, or of the Board or other official body having power of appointment or removal, to determine whether, under the circumstances surrounding such dismissal, such official or employee shall receive pay for any vacation period to which, but for such dismissal, he/she then would have been entitled. In the case of any official or employee whose service is terminated by his/her death, such payment shall be made to the person legally entitled thereto.

(Ord. No. 535 N.S. § 2-543; Ord. No. 1035 N.S.)

The time during which any vacation may be taken by any official or employee shall be designated by the head of the department in which such official or employee is employed, or by the Board or other official body having jurisdiction and power of appointment over such official or employee.

(Ord. No. 535 N.S. § 2-544)

a. Each employee entitled to ten (10) or more working days vacation in any calendar year may, subject to the provisions of the immediately preceding subsection, defer a maximum of ten (10) working days of such vacation to the next succeeding calendar year. Such deferral shall be requested in writing by the employee, reviewed by the department head, who shall note if the employee qualifies, and transmitted to the Personnel Department, upon forms prescribed by the Personnel Director, where it shall become a matter of record.

b. Where permitted by the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding between the City and any recognized employee organization, any permanent employee of the City or Bureau of Electricity, incumbent in any classification of employment so permitted by the Memorandum, will be allowed to carry over all of his or her accumulated vacation time, whether or not such time is in excess of the normally allowed ten (10) days of carryover, if the employee is precluded from using any accumulated vacation time in excess of ten (10) days before the end of the calendar year, either by order of the City or Bureau Management or as a result of being on sick leave or accident leave, explicitly documented by a doctor's certificate, during the course of the end of the calendar year such that it becomes impossible to use any of such accumulated vacation time in excess of ten (10) days.

(Ord. No. 535 N.S. § 2-545; Ord. No. 1908 N.S.)

Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 25-3.1 and 25-3.5, this subsection exclusively shall apply to sworn members of the Fire Department, and its intent is to express vacation leave in terms of duty shifts of such employees rather than in terms of calendar weeks or working days. Such employees who work a fifty-six (56) hour work week shall be subject to the following vacation leave with pay schedule:

(Ord. No. 1654 N.S.)

Any employee referred to in subsection 25-3.1, who occupies a position with a six (6) month probationary period at entry level, and who shall have been in the satisfactory service of the City for more than six (6) months but for less than one (1) year, may, with the written approval of his/her department head, take a vacation with pay of not exceeding one-half (½) the number of regularly scheduled working days he/she would be entitled to by subsection 25-3.1 if otherwise qualified thereunder. This provision is intended only to permit greater flexibility in the scheduling of vacations of the employees referred to, and shall in no case operate to grant more vacation or vacation credit than set forth in subsection 25-3.1 or otherwise in this section. This subsection shall not apply to part-time employees, or to sworn members of the Police and Fire Departments.

(Ord. No. 1654 N.S.)