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Peoria staff proposes code change to let employees donate vacation hours to union bank after court ruling

3154571 · April 30, 2025
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Peoria city staff presented a proposed code change to allow employees to donate accrued vacation hours into union-specific banks, a new approach prompted by an Arizona Supreme Court ruling that ended the city’s prior paid "union release time."

Peoria city staff presented a proposed change to the city code on April 22 to allow employees to voluntarily donate accrued vacation hours into union-specific banks for use on union business, citing an Arizona Supreme Court ruling that ended the city’s prior practice of providing paid “union release time.”

The change would add a new subsection to city code section 6-5 authorizing voluntary donations of vacation time into a union bank. Human Resources Deputy Director Brianne Nelson said the practice would be strictly voluntary and donor employees must gift their own accrued vacation time.

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