Effective in December 2024, December 2025 and December 2026, the County shall provide three (3) paid winter recess holidays (the equivalent of twenty-four (24) hours for a full-time employee) per year.
For a three (3) day period designated by the County between December 26th and December 31st of 2024, 2025 and 2026, the County agrees to hold a Winter Recess. During the Winter Recess, County departments and divisions may move to minimum staffing levels and/or close business, depending on the needs of the department and the public served. Which departments and divisions will close or go to minimum staffing and which managers will be required to work is entirely within the discretion of the Department Head or their designee. The determination for closure shall be made by the Department Head and subject to County Executive and Board of Supervisors’ approval.
During the Winter Recess, regular full-time employees in established positions shall be entitled to eight (8) hours of full pay for each day of the three-day Winter Recess, provided they are in a full pay status on both their regularly scheduled workdays immediately preceding and following the holiday. Part-time employees shall be entitled to holiday pay, not to exceed eight (8) hours for any one (1) day, in proportion to the average percentage of hours worked during the two (2) pay periods without holidays immediately preceding the pay period which includes the holiday.
If any of the Winter Recess days falls on a day the employee is not regularly scheduled to work, or if an employee is required to work on a Winter Recess day, the employee shall be entitled to equivalent straight time off with pay. “Winter Recess” exchange days shall be scheduled in the same manner as vacation, unless the department’s policy is to schedule vacation per a vacation sign up list, in which case these days shall be scheduled in the same manner as a Floating Holiday This equivalent time off is limited to twenty-four (24) hours. No employee will be allowed to have an accumulation of more than forty-eight (48) hours of Winter Recess time to their credit at any one time. If an employee leaves County service with accrued Winter Recess hours, those hours will be cashed out with terminal pay. Employees working on a Winter Recess day shall be compensated in accordance with the provisions of this Resolution.