City of Milwaukee - File #: 121367

• File #: 121367
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 2/5/2013
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 2/27/2013
• Effective date: 3/16/2013
• Title: A substitute ordinance relating to vacation benefits for city employees.
• Sponsors: THE CHAIR
• Indexes: CITY EMPLOYEES, EMPLOYEE BENEFITS, VACATION BENEFITS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
3/15/2013	1	CITY CLERK	PUBLISHED
3/4/2013	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
2/27/2013	1	COMMON COUNCIL	PASSED	Pass	14:0
2/26/2013	1	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE; Minutes note: Individual appearing: Maria Monteagudo, Department of Employee Relations	Pass	5:0
2/21/2013	1	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/21/2013	1	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/5/2013	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
121367
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference

Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
A substitute ordinance relating to vacation benefits for city employees.
Sections
350-40-1-c cr
350-40-4 am
350-40-12 am
Analysis
This ordinance establishes that a city employee may, at the discretion of his or her department head, borrow as much as 80 hours of vacation time provided that the total number of hours of vacation time he or she takes in that pay-period year does not exceed the number of hours the employee would earn in that pay-period year.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Part 1. Section 350-40-1-c of the code is created to read:

350-40. Vacations
1. DEFINITIONS.
c. “Pay-period year” means the 26 consecutive pay periods ending within a single calendar year.

Part 2. Section 350-40-4 of the code is amended to read:

4. UNEARNED TIME DEDUCTIBLE. Vacation taken before the full amount has been earned shall be considered time owed the city until it is earned. [[An]] >>At the discretion of the department head, an<< employee may borrow up to 80 hours of vacation before it is earned [[at the discretion of the department head]] >> provided that the total number of vacation hours he or she takes in that pay period year does not exceed the number of hours that the employee would earn in vacation in that pay-period year under sub. 3 <<. In no case may an employee's vacation account balance [[be less than]] >>exceed<< 80 negative hours. Any employee who leaves the service of the city due to resignation, retirement, termination, discharge, layoff or death will have the compensation for vacation time owed the city deducted from the final paycheck. [[Any employee who leaves the service of the city due to resignation, retirement, layoff or death or who takes military leave will be paid for earned vacation time that has accumulated. Discharged employees are not entitled to pay for accumulated vacation time.]]

Part 3. Sect...