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1 <br /> O R A N G E C O U N T Y <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: January 4, 1993 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # <br /> SUBJECT: Personnel Ordinance Revision - Holiday Pay <br /> DEPARTMENT: Personnel PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Elaine Holmes, Personnel Director <br /> 1 - Draft Revised Article IV, <br /> Section 4 .0, "Holidays TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> and Holiday Pay" Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> 2 - Current Article IV, Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Section 4 .0 Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: To propose revision to the Holiday Pay section of the <br /> Orange County Personnel Ordinance. <br /> BACKGROUND: In response to proposals from the Sheriff and EMS, <br /> County staff have completed a review of the holiday <br /> pay policy. The review has focused on pay and time <br /> off received for work on a County holiday. <br /> The Personnel Ordinance currently provides that when <br /> an eligible employee works on a holiday the employee <br /> receives time and one half off for each hour worked on <br /> the holiday in addition to regular pay. <br /> Experience in the Sheriff' s Department and EMS has <br /> been that current levels of staffing make it difficult <br /> for the employee to take accumulated time off. To <br /> help with this situation, the County has been paying <br /> for the "one half" portion of the time and scheduling <br /> the remaining time as time off. <br /> Even with this arrangement, these departments have <br /> continued to experience difficulty with the current <br /> policy. Specifically: <br /> -Employees accumulate time off which they have <br /> difficulty taking because of work requirements. <br /> -When such time off is taken, it results in <br /> significant cost for overtime and temporary wages <br /> to provide staff coverage for the time the <br /> employee is off duty. <br />