Fiscal Note
There is no fiscal impact with this change. Employees required to serve a probationary period in excess of six months will earn the same amount of vacation leave as before. They will, however, be eligible to take that vacation time earlier.
Title
Amending Section 3.32(7)(a) of the Madison General Ordinances to provide vacation to those employees required to serve a probation period in excess of six months.
Body
DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance provides vacation to those employees required to serve a probation period in excess of six months.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
Subdivision (a) entitled "Eligibility" of Subsection (7) entitled "Vacation" of Section 3.32 entitled "Absence of Employees from Duty" of the Madison General Ordinances is amended to read as follows:
"(a) Eligibility. All City employees who have completed an original probationary period shall be eligible to receive an annual leave of absence with pay to serve as vacation. However, employees who are required to serve a twelve (12) month probationary period in excess of six (6) months shall be eligible to receive earned paid vacation leave after successful completion of six (6) months of probation, not to exceed five (5) days. In the event that an employee in a seasonal or hourly position who is otherwise ineligible to receive vacation shall move from the status of seasonal or hourly to the status of permanent without an interruption of continuous service of more than two consecutive pay periods, then the employee so appointed shall upon completion of probation be credited for vacation leave of one (1) day for each two hundred eight (208) hours worked from the earliest date of employment followed by continuous service. This provision does not apply to crossing guards."