Fiscal Note
Adoption of this ordinance
revision will allow, at the Mayor's discretion, a
negotiated increase in the amount of leave time
granted to newly hired non-represented City
employees. Presently, all City employees
receive 2 weeks of vacation leave beginning
with the first year of employment. A newly hired
individual granted 3 weeks of vacation under this
new provision would receive an average of 1
additional week of vacation leave annually for 19
years. An individual granted 4 weeks upon
hiring would receive an average of 1.7 additional
weeks per year during the same 19-year period.
To the extent that this additional
vacation leave is used in the year that it is earned, there is no significant budgetary impact beyond the reduced work hours of the new employee. To the extent that additional leave remains unused at the end of any year, it represents an additional benefit cost equal to the salary payable to the employee for unused vacation time.
Because the future budgetary impact of this provision is dependent on the frequency with which additional vacation leave is granted, the pay rate of the employees involved and the amount of leave that is accumulated in the future, it cannot be predicted.
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SECOND SUBSTITUTE Amending Section 3.36(7)(c) and 3.38(7)(a) and creating Section 3.38(7)(c)8. of the Madison General Ordinances to allow an upward adjustment in leave entitlement for new appointments under certain circumstances and to provide that such appointees' vacation leave entitlement be earned thereafter in accordance with the vacation leave schedule for permanent employees; and to eliminate obsolete language which would allow managers to receive a higher beginning salary since managers (other than Police and Fire chiefs) are now on contract and negotiate their salary.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows: ...
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