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ORDINANCE NO. 78-5-1558
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 2-20, "HOLIDAYS" OF THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF'
PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. That
Section 2-20 "Holidays" of the
Code of Ordinances
of the
City of Paducah, Kentucky,
be amended and reordained so
that said section as
amended
and reordained shall hereafter read as follows:
"Sec. 2-20. Holidays.
(a) The following days during each calendar year are hereby designated
as holidays on which all city employees, with the exception of the police and fire
department personnel, will be granted a holiday:
New Year's Day (January 1)
Memorial Day (May 30),
Independence Day (July 4)
Labor. Day - -
Thanksgiving Day
The, Day immediately following - Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Eve (December 24)
Christmas, Day, (D-ecember 25.)
New Year's Eve (December 31)
Each, employee's ,,birthday
Ea. - .
and such other. holidays- as, may, from, time to time be, designated by- motion -,of the Board
of Commissioners. If any of the days mentioned _ herein as.- holidays, fall on. Sunday.,
Mondayshall- be ,, recognized. as the . ho.liday .,- - If any of _ the above holidays fall on
Saturday,_ the preceding Friday. will be_ recognized. as. the holiday.
As. -soon -,as possible after any -holiday, the police and fire department, personnel
shall be granted a leave of one (1) day to be selected by the respective head of the,
police department and fire department.
All other employees
will be paid for recognized holidays
not worked
in an
amount equivalent to eight (8)
times the employee's regular hourly
rate or the
equivalent
of one day's pay. Such other employees who are required to work on a recognized
holiday shall be further compensated at one and one-half (11) times their straight time
hourly rate.
(b) Members "of the fire department working as a member of a platoon per-
forming duty in shifts of twenty-four hours on duty and forty-eight hours off duty shall
be given holiday time as may be scheduled with the Chief of the Fire Department with
a credit of two (2) holidays per twenty-four hour shift, and they shall be compensated
for such holiday at their average earnings including regular and overtime pay for a
fifty-six hour work week" .
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SECTION 2. Section 1 above amends an Ordinance dated September 23, 1952,
which was last amended by Ordinance No. 74-6-991, adopted June 18, 1974.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect and retroactive
to May 8, 1978.
Mayor