Common use of Overtime and Call Clause in Contracts

Overtime and Call. BACK PAY‌ a. Day of call-back staffing will begin at 6:00 a.m. If Fire Administration is unsuccessful in the first attempt to contact an off-duty employee by computerized tracking telephone for call-back purposes, Fire Administration shall proceed to the next name on the call-back list. Such employee shall be charged for the overtime work as a refusal. b. All paid time shall count as time worked for the purposes of calculating overtime. Effective June 27, 2015, all paid time during the two-week pay period shall count as time worked for purposes of calculating overtime with the exception of sick leave. c. When employees are called out of their homes at times they are not regularly scheduled to report to duty, they shall be paid at their straight time base rate of pay or time and one-half, consistent with (b), above, from the time they report to duty at the location they were ordered to report to until relieved at that location from such unscheduled assignment, plus travel time enroute from their home to such location up to a maximum of sixty (60) minutes, except that in no event shall they be compensated for less than three (3) hours for such call-out from their homes. d. When it becomes necessary to call employees in to replace employees in non-emergency situations, employees of equal rank to the position which caused the recall shall be called for replacement. This shall occur only after existing eligible register on that shift has been exhausted, except however, that callback to fill the position of Firefighter shall not recognize rank. When an employee of higher rank is called to fill the position of Engineer or Firefighter, the employee so called shall receive overtime at the maximum hourly rate of pay for the position the employee fills. Travel time provided under subsection (c) shall not apply to employees in fire suppression who are recalled and work sixteen (16) hours or more and forty (40) hour per week employees who are recalled and work six (6) hours or more. In no event shall employees be compensated for less than three (3) hours for each such call-out from their homes.

Overtime and Call. BACK PAY‌ a. Day of call-back staffing will begin at 6:00 a.m. If Fire Administration is unsuccessful in the first attempt to contact an off-duty employee by computerized tracking telephone for call-back purposes, Fire Administration shall proceed to the next name on the call-back list. Such employee shall be charged for the overtime work as a refusal. b. All paid time shall count as time worked for the purposes of calculating overtime. Effective June 27, 2015, all paid time during the two-week pay period shall count as time worked for purposes of calculating overtime with the exception of sick leave. c. When employees are called out of their homes at times they are not regularly scheduled to report to duty, they shall be paid at their straight time base rate of pay or time and one-half, consistent with (b), above, from the time they report to duty at the location they were ordered to report to until relieved at that location from such unscheduled assignment, plus travel time enroute from their home to such location up to a maximum of sixty (60) minutes, except that in no event shall they be compensated for less than three (3) hours for such call-out from their homes. d. When it becomes necessary to call employees in to replace employees in non-non- emergency situations, employees of equal rank to the position which caused the recall shall be called for replacement. This shall occur only after existing eligible register on that shift has been exhausted, except however, that callback to fill the position of Firefighter shall not recognize rank. When an employee of higher rank is called to fill the position of Engineer or Firefighter, the employee so called shall receive overtime at the maximum hourly rate of pay for the position the employee fills. Travel time provided under subsection (c) shall not apply to employees in fire suppression who are recalled and work sixteen (16) hours or more and forty (40) hour per week employees who are recalled and work six (6) hours or more. In no event shall employees be compensated for less than three (3) hours for each such call-out from their homes. e. The Fire Battalion Chiefs are exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The City agrees to pay Fire Battalion Chiefs at their straight time base rate of pay or overtime at the rate of time and one-half, consistent with (b), above, for all hours worked beyond their regularly scheduled twenty-four (24) hour shift or the regularly scheduled fifty-six (56) hour workweek.