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Section l. The basic workweek for all employees covered by this Agreement shall consist of forty (40) hours, starting at 12:01 a.m. Sunday and ending at 12:00 midnight Saturday, unless otherwise specified or scheduled by management to meet particular requirements of the Department. Time spent in roll call or briefing for employees required to attend will be considered as time worked.
Section 2. All authorized and approved work performed in excess of forty (40) hours in any one (1) workweek shall be considered as overtime and shall be paid (unless the employee is granted compensatory time off) at the overtime rate of one and one-half (1-1/2) times the employee's regular hourly rate of pay. Compensatory time is time earned at one and one-half (1-1/2) times the overtime hours worked by an employee. The choice of compensatory time off or overtime pay shall be at the employee's option unless that compensatory time off would interfere with the operational needs of the Department involved or there are insufficient funds to pay overtime. Accrued, unused compensatory time off may not exceed eighty (80) hours, except when in the best interest of the City and when approved by the Police Chief. Upon separation from the City, the employee shall be paid for all accrued, unused compensatory time at the employee's then existing final regular rate or the average regular rate received by the employee during the last three (3) years of the employee's employment, whichever is greater. Once the eighty (80) hours compensatory time maximum accrual has been reached, employees required to work in excess of forty (40) hours in a designated workweek shall be paid overtime at the time and one-half rate.
Section 2.2 In accordance with Section 7(K) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the normal work week for employees who are assigned to a police dog in the Canine Unit or a drug detection dog shall consist of a forty-two and one-half (42.5) hour workweek in a seven (7) day period accomplished by a thirty-nine and one-half (39.5) hour work schedule and three (3) additional hours each week for the performance of all canine related responsibilities outside of the established work schedule. The forty-two and one-half (42.5) hours shall be compensated as straight time hours.
All authorized and approved work performed in excess of forty-two and one-half (42.5) hours in any seven (7) day workweek shall be considered overtime and shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half (1-1/2) times the employee's regular hourly rate of pay.
Paid leave shall be used on the basis of actual leave from work. For example, a Canine Unit officer who takes one (1) week vacation but continues to care for his or her police dog shall use thirty-nine and one-half (39.5) hours paid leave. In such cases, the officer shall receive forty-two and one-half (42.5) straight time hours of pay.
Section 3. With the exception of paid sick leave which is not considered as hours worked, for the purposes of overtime computation, holidays, vacation leave, or any paid leave of absence shall be considered as time worked.
Section 4. Employees may be required to work overtime as scheduled. Overtime will be distributed equitably among employees in their particular job classification, in their organizational units, as far as the character of the work permits. Although temporary imbalances in the distribution of overtime may occur, nothing in this Section shall be construed as alleviating the continuing intent of Departmental management to distribute overtime fairly and equitably over an extended period of time. Departmental management will maintain overtime records and will make such Information available to a Steward upon request.
Section 5. No employee within a unit assigned standard work hours shall have his/her hours of work or days of work changed within his/her area of assignments as a punitive measure or specifically for the purpose of avoiding the payment of overtime.
Section 6. Pyramiding of Rates - In no event shall the overtime or premium pay provided under this Agreement be pyramided. Thus, if two (2) or more overtime or premium pay provisions are applicable to the same hours of work, only the applicable provision yielding the largest amount shall satisfy the requirements of all other pay provisions. |
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