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Council backs half‑day New Year’s Eve holiday, moves to reconcile vacation accrual policy
Summary
Council supported adding a half‑day New Year’s Eve holiday and directed staff to amend the vacation accrual policy to match payroll accrual practice (3.7 hours per pay period), remove the active accrual cap, and retain a payout cap on separation.
Montgomery councilmembers reviewed proposed amendments to the city’s Policies and Procedures Manual on holidays and vacation leave and gave staff direction on how to reconcile the written policy with current payroll practice.
On holidays, council favored adding a half‑day for New Year’s Eve. Councilmembers said the office is rarely used that afternoon and that a half‑day would be convenient to employees; staff said the change would increase paid holidays to 12.5 days. The council…
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