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Select Board adopts highway holiday pay policy to standardize overtime
Summary
The board adopted a highway holiday pay formula that sets premium holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year) at double time and other holidays at time-and-a-half; employees may either bank the eight regular hours or receive pay. The policy was moved into HR pending final language edits.
The Bristol Select Board voted to adopt a formal highway holiday pay policy intended to standardize overtime and holiday pay for highway employees.
Under the adopted formula, work on premium holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year) will be paid at double time for hours worked; other holidays qualify for time-and-a-half. Employees who work on a premium holiday will also receive the regular eight hours' pay for the holiday and may either take that eight hours later or be paid for it. The policy language was drafted to avoid banked-hour liabilities accumulating unnecessarily.
A Select Board member moved to adopt the highway holiday pay policy into the town's HR policy; the motion was seconded and the board proceeded. The transcript records the motion and discussion (including comparisons to nearby union practices) but does not record a named roll-call tally. The board directed staff to add the language to HR policy documents and to finalize edits before implementation.
