2019-20 - Ratify Collective Bargaining - Fire

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ARTICLE IS HOLIDAYS 15.01 Members of the Division of Fire shall be granted eleven (11) holidays to include New Year's Day, President's Day, Good Friday, Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, plus one (1) twenty four (24) hour off -duty period classified as a personal business day, provided the member works a full year in which the holidays occur. These holidays shall be granted in the form of six (6) twenty four (24) hour off -duty periods to compensate members for holidays actually worked. These twenty four (24) hour off -duty holidays may be divided, upon request, into two (2) twelve (12) hour half holidays. All holiday off -duty periods shall be selected in accordance with the seniority plan. 15.02 The personal business day may be selected in one (1) period, or may be divided into lesser off - duty periods, but may not be taken in increments of less than one-half (1/2) hour. 15.03 Members working a forty (40) hour week will, whenever possible, be granted the actual holiday off -duty. However, any member required to work on a holiday shall be granted, at a later time, an eight (8) hour off -duty period. 15.04 Members may forward a written request no later than December 151 to the Chief for payment or conversion to compensatory time of up to one hundred forty four (144) holiday hours in lieu of time off. Payment for said hours shall be received in January. 15.05 Members scheduled to work the actual holiday, excluding the member's personal day, shall receive a premium pay of one and one-half (1-1/2) their regular rate of pay for that day for all hours worked. 15.06 All members accumulating in excess of fourteen (14) twenty four (24) hour holidays shall forfeit all time in excess of fourteen (14) twenty four (24) hour holidays. Accrued time in the holiday account of each member shall be paid at the current hourly rate of the member upon retirement, termination or resignation, or to the estate in case of the member's death. 15.07 Members required to work overtime on New Year's Day, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas shall be paid at the rate of two (2) times their basic wage. ARTICLE 16 MEDICAL COVERAGE AND INSURANCE 16.01 The City agrees to provide for full-time members and their dependents a choice of health care plans, provided the City may change either carriers or delivery systems if the benefits and provider networks are comparable or better than the present plan. The City shall not offer less than two (2) plans-, . non a_a 14MO g-lested by the City. The Gil , ..hall -no! be required to ay any premium .o an I A40 c the, arm at naaiddja is f the non 15