Common use of HOURS WORKED AND OVERTIME Clause in Contracts

HOURS WORKED AND OVERTIME. A. Employees shall be paid during the same weekly or bi-weekly period established by the Employer for all employees of Chesterfield Township. B. Employees will have one (1) hour paid lunch, at the fire station that will be scheduled. If interrupted by an emergency call, lunch will continue after the emergency call. C. There will be two (2), fifteen (15) minute breaks per shift and they will be scheduled and can be interrupted by an emergency call. D. If, in the judgment of supervision, there exists an emergency or operational difficulty which requires overtime work, supervision may assign overtime as needed throughout the Department, and the employees assigned the overtime shall work it. Overtime will be permitted when authorized by the Public Safety Director/Designee. If twenty-eight (28) days’ notice or more is given for taking a day off, which causes overtime, it will first be offered to members of this bargaining unit. Any time off requests received less than twenty- eight (28) days in advance can be filled with Part-time/Paid–On-Call employees. Fill overtime shall be equalized among all full-time career personnel of the Fire Department without regard to rank, as long as there is one (1) full-time Officer on duty for that day. The Officer in charge at headquarters shall keep an up-to-date list of Employees next on call for overtime on a departmental, as opposed to a station, basis. When Employees are called for overtime, it shall be so recorded and logged. The Employee with the lowest amount of overtime hours shall be offered any overtime first. If the overtime calls for twenty-four (24) hours, then they will have the option to accept the whole twenty- four (24) hours, or take twelve (12) hours (07:00-19:00 or 19:00-07:00) of the offered twenty-four