THE CITY OF NASHUA “The Gate City
Administrative Services Division
Date: July 28, 2021
To: Mayor Donchess
Board of Aldermen
From: Kimberly Kleiner, Administrative Services Director
Subject: Ordinance O-21-067 Recognizing Juneteenth as a City Holiday and Revising the Holiday
Section of the Unaffiliated Employees Personnel Policies
The Division of Administrative Services, which includes the Human Resources Department, acknowledges the
importance of observing Juneteenth as a city holiday. While we support the proposed Ordinance O-21-067, we
would like to draw attention to the following:
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City Hall employees fall into two major groups — Unaffiliated and UAW employees.
Currently Unaffiliated employees have eight specified holidays and three additional holidays selected by
the Mayor each year. Currently UAW employees, both Clerical/Technical and Professional unions, have
nine specified holidays and two additional holidays determined by the Mayor each year, as stated in the
contracts (see attached). Both groups receive the Presidential Election Day every four years.
The current 2021 Holiday Schedule (see attached) allows for Unaffiliated and UAW employees to
observe the same holidays by selecting three additional days for Unaffiliated employees and two
additional days for UAW employees each year which fall upon the same days.
The addition of Iuneteenth as a specified holiday in the Unaffiliated Employees Personnel Policy will
add an additional holiday which is not covered by the UAW current contracts. The UAW contracts
expire in June of 2024.
These facts raise concern over the ability to align a holiday schedule in the future between these two labor
groups, both necessary for the opening of City Hall. Taking into consideration that best practice is to negotiate
holidays into a labor agreement, we would recommend addressing the issue during the bargaining of the next
UAW contracts.
