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Board changes holiday-pay rules for salaried staff after Fourth of July workload concerns
Summary
Trustees approved a resolution to provide time-and-a-half pay to salaried employees required to work on holidays and allow those employees to take the holiday at another date in the calendar year; vote was 5-1.
Trustees voted 5-1 on June 16 to amend the village employee handbook so salaried employees required to work on a holiday earn time-and-a-half pay and may use the holiday hours on another day in the same calendar year.
Bill explained the change was prompted by the Fourth of July event, where salaried staff frequently worked extended hours in the run-up, during and after the celebration. He said tracking comp time for salaried (exempt) employees is difficult and the proposed approach compensates staff for required holiday work while giving them time off later in the year.
"For those folks who are required to work or called in to work on a holiday, they will be compensated at time and a half and then be allowed to have their holiday hours applied to another day in the calendar year," Bill said. The measure aims to prevent salaried staff from accruing unrecoverable hours that cannot be flexed within a pay period.
Trustees debated the policy's fit with exempt-salary norms and part-time holiday pay practices. One trustee said exempt employees traditionally do not earn overtime; others noted the Fourth of July is an unusually demanding event for staff and supported the change to maintain morale and retention. The resolution passed on a recorded voice vote.
