Common use of A OVERTIME Clause in Contracts

A OVERTIME. SECTION 18.1. Full-time bargaining unit members shall be compensated at straight time for all hours in paid status, except that any hours in excess of thirty-six (36) or forty (40) hours in any week, based upon their assigned work schedule, shall be compensated at a rate of one and one-half (1½) times the employee’s regular rate of pay. Overtime shall be prior approved by the Director, or his designee unless an emergency exists that requires immediate response. SECTION 18.2. The Employer shall equally distribute overtime opportunities among qualified employees with the full-time employees currently having right of first refusal for overtime opportunities. If all full-time and part-time employees refuse, then a full-time employee will be mandated in inverse order by seniority. SECTION 18.3. Employees shall not begin work prior to their normal scheduled starting time nor work beyond their normal scheduled quitting time, unless overtime has been approved by the Employer. SECTION 18.4. There shall be no pyramiding of overtime and/or premium pay. Compensation shall not be paid more than once for the same hours under any provisions of this Article or Agreement. SECTION 18.5. If a bargaining unit member’s days off abut his/her vacation consisting of all regularly scheduled workdays between scheduled days off, they shall not be subject to a mandatory call in. The stretch of time off must begin and end with a Vacation day, and both vacation days must be abutted by days off, in order to be protected from mandatory call-in. Up to three (3) employees of the agency may be off on Vacation or Personal time at the same time, only in cases where one of these three days is a scheduled day off, protected by the above mandatory call-in restriction. An employee may be offered overtime on these abutting days off, but only after the overtime list has been exhausted. Employees turning down overtime on one of these abutting days will not be charged against their balance on the Rolling Overtime Roster (outlined in SOP 215). Overtime accepted on an abutting day off will be charged to their balance on the Rolling Overtime Roster, but any other abutting days will remain protected from mandate. SECTION 18.6. Employees scheduled for stand-by status shall earn a stand-by supplement of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per hour when being on stand-by any time between 08:00 on Monday through 07:59 on Saturday. Employees scheduled for stand-by status shall earn a stand-by supplement of five dollars ($5.00) per hour when being on stand-by any time between 08:00 on Saturday through 07:59 on Monday, or from 08:00 through 07:59 on any defined holiday, outlined in Article 22, Section 22.1 of this CBA, effective upon ratification of this contract. Stand-by schedule shall be implemented through labor management agreement. Included in scheduling for stand-by will be both full and part time bargaining unit employees. Employees scheduled and paid for stand-by status shall be free to use their time as they please, but in order to receive the stand-by pay supplement employees must be readily available to report to work when directed in as short a time as is reasonably possible. The bargaining unit chairperson or designee shall be responsible for scheduling the standby employee. Standby responsibilities shall be rotated as equitably as possible among all bargaining unit employees, first utilizing full-time employees and only then offered to part- time employees.