Pittsburgh City Council on Wednesday tentatively approved five weeks of vacation time for non-union city employees who have worked for the city 15 years or more.
The current vacation cap for non-union employees is four weeks, a limit imposed in June 2004 by Pittsburgh's state-appointed Act 47 financial recovery team. Before June 2004, the limit was five weeks.
If the measure passes a final vote Tuesday, it would apply only to employees hired before June 2004. About 395 non-union employees were hired before that date, a city budget official said. About 230 employees would be eligible for the extra week next year.
A city police union representative said the extra week of vacation could help the police union argue to have its workers' cap on vacation raised from four weeks to five weeks.
