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The city of Portland told all of its nonunion-represented employees last week it was awarding them each three additional “personal holidays” for the year.
The city’s Bureau of Human Resources wrote in an email that the award is only applicable to employees who returned to full in-person work as mandated by Mayor Keith Wilson earlier this year. The email describes the additional holidays as “part of our ongoing efforts to ensure you are recognized and supported, especially during a time when the city’s budget realities place limitations on compensation.”
Many of those employees are managers and supervisors.
The city has in recent years frozen compensation hikes for nonunion-represented employees as a cost-saving measure for the city. One of the ways the city makes up for it: by offering up to 80 hours of “management leave” awards to managers and supervisors.
An analysis by WW this spring (“Participation Trophies,” June 4) showed that city bureau directors awarded an additional 88,240 hours of paid time off to nonunion-represented employees in 2024—double the number of hours awarded a decade ago.
Clarification: A previous version of this story did not make it clear that a portion of the nonunion-represented employees are not managers or supervisors.
