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County adopts holiday-pay change for employees at 365‑day facilities
Summary
The court adopted a revision to the personnel policies manual (section 10.11) clarifying that county holidays equal eight hours and that staff in 365‑day operations will be paid time-and-a-half rather than receiving a floating holiday.
Cameron County Commissioners Court adopted a change to the personnel policies manual on Jan. 13 that defines a county-observed holiday as eight hours and pays employees who work on observed holidays at 1.5 times their hourly wage.
Human-resources staff (speaker 9) told the court the change aligns section 10.11 with section 7.01 and reflects the auditor's current interpretation. The change eliminates the practice of granting a floating holiday to employees who work on county-observed holidays for 365-day operations, a practice staff said had created "banking" of floating holidays and scheduling difficulties.
The court moved and unanimously approved the policy change. The adoption applies to departments that operate year-round and instructs payroll to pay eligible employees time-and-a-half for work on county holidays rather than issuing floating days off.
Commissioners said the change reflects prior requests brought to the court to compensate employees rather than rely solely on floating holidays; staff said human-resources and the auditor had reviewed the revision.
