Overtime and Compensatory Time Employees shall be on a 21 consecutive day work period for the purpose of computing overtime. Employees assigned to a Unit day rotation shall be regularly scheduled to work a tour of duty consisting of 24 consecutive hours and shall be off the following 48 hours consecutive hours. Regularly scheduled time worked in excess of 159 hours in a work period shall be compensated at a rate of one and one half (1.5) times the employee's hourly rate of pay. Any time worked other than regularly scheduled time shall be compensated at the rate of 2.15 times the employee's hourly rate of pay, if the employee takes the compensation as cash overtime compensation in the pay period corresponding to the time the compensation is earned. Employees assigned to a permanent forty (40) hour position, or temporary forty (40) hour assignment, shall be scheduled a standard work week of Monday through Friday, 0800-1600, or otherwise dictated by departmental needs. While assigned in this capacity, the employee shall be paid the standard pay rate to which they are entitled times one and four tenths (1.4). Overtime for forty (40) hour position shall be compensated at one and one half (1.5) times the aforementioned forty hour positions shall be compensated at one and one half (1.5) times the aforementioned forty hour pay rate, and will include any time accrued beyond forty hours in a calendar week. As used herein, hourly rate of pay shall include base hourly rate of pay, paramedic compensation, and educational incentive plan payment. In the event that an employee opts to take compensatory time in lieu of cash overtime compensation, as authorized by this article, the employee may take such compensatory time off work as permitted by the Fire Chief, or designee, at the rate of one and one-half (1.5) hours of time off work per hour of accrued compensatory time at a time mutually convenient to the employee and the Fire Chief or designee. Time worked for the purpose of this section, shall be defined as the sum of hours actually worked and hours of authorized leave used. Overtime shall be computed to the nearest fifteen (15) minutes. When an employee is called in for unscheduled work, overtime shall be for time actually worked, and in no case less than three (3) hours. An employee called in to work before the start of a regularly scheduled work shift is not entitled to the aforementioned three (3) hour minimum call in pay if the period of work abuts the shift. An employee held over from a regularly scheduled shift will not be entitled to the three (3) hour call in minimum. An employee required to be held over in the morning, after 08:00, shall be paid for actual hours worked, in fifteen (15) minute increments, rather than the three (3) hour minimum set forth elsewhere in this contract. Employees held over/called in shall be released immediately after equipment and personnel are returned to levels established by the “Read and Sign” Policy currently in effect or as may be revised from time to time. An employee who has been called in for unscheduled work, then is released from that work and later accepts another recall before the original three (3) unscheduled hours have expired, shall be paid for only a single three (3) hour overtime “call in” payment, or for actual overtime worked, whichever is more. In no event shall an employee become entitled to more than a single, three (3) hour minimum call-in payment for reporting to work during those three (3) hours of unscheduled time, even if the employee reports more than once during that time. At no time shall any employee “double dip” or collect overtime twice for the same period of time. Employees who are called-in for unscheduled work, are released from that work and later fail to respond to a subsequent call-in within the same three (3) hour period will relinquish their right to the guaranteed three (3) hour minimum call-in pay for their initial call-in during that period. Such employees will receive compensation only for their actual time worked during the three (3) hour period, at the overtime rate of compensation. Employees may accrue compensatory time in lieu of cash overtime payment in the manner specified in this Article. An employee’s compensatory time balance shall not exceed 240 hours. Compensatory time earned during holidays counts toward and is subject to this two hundred forty (240) hour cap. Accrued compensatory time may be cashed out, in full or in part, at the employee’s regular rate of pay at the employee’s request. Any employee who has accrued and unused compensatory time off at the time of his/her termination of employment shall be paid for such time at the rate of pay at termination. Upon the death of a firefighter of the Fire Division, said employee's estate shall receive a cash payment for all of said employee's accrued compensatory time, at said employee's current rate of pay.