Common use of Declared Disaster Clause in Contracts

Declared Disaster. All employees of the County are considered disaster service workers. In the event and during the period of an officially declared disaster affecting any portion of the County of Riverside, and notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, the following provisions shall apply: 1. Any Department Head, in order to perform the work of his/her department or a civil defense function, may employ emergency employees. 2. For the same purpose, any Department Head may employ on a paid overtime basis his/her current employees at hourly rates equivalent to their current compensation basis. 3. Any employee who reports to his/her regular or a designated place of employment or to a civil defense assignment shall be deemed to be employed in his/her usual position in a paid status. Any employee who without adequate reason for absence under the terms contained herein who fails to so report shall be deemed absent without authority and shall not be paid during such absence. 4. The Board of Supervisors may authorize payment on a paid overtime basis at the rate of one and one-half times the hourly rate equivalent to the employee's then current compensation basis for those employees set forth in Appendix I of County Salary Ordinance No. 440, and who are required to perform emergency services during a County-declared emergency. "Emergency Services" as used in this subsection, shall be such services as the Board of Supervisors finds to constitute such, at the time it authorized the payment thereof.