Overtime/Extra Time. a. The Transportation Department shall have one list of drivers that have requested, in writing, their desire to work extra time. This list shall be referred to as overtime and extra time (OT/ET) and must be posted in the department no later than the third (3rd) Friday of the start of the new school year. Time beyond the regular assigned package will be counted as extra time. b. Distribution of OT/ET within the drivers shall be offered as defined below. • OT/ET list will start with the driver with most seniority and continue the rotation of drivers for four (4) weeks or for pay purposes, two (2) bi- weekly pay periods. The next four (4) week period to be used for equalizing OT/ET Hours. Daily noon runs shall be assigned by seniority and not rotated. The supervisor shall meet monthly with a driver representative committee for the purposes of ensuing equalization practices. • A driver who is available and refuses OT/ET shall be charged with the total hours that were charged to the driver that accepted the OT/ET involved. • All OT/ET worked beyond the regularly assigned hours shall be charged to the driver for purpose of determining position on the OT/ET list, except as noted in Section a. • A driver shall not be allowed to exchange an OT/ET assignment with another driver or accept an OT/ET assignment unless approved by the transportation supervisor. However, exchanging will not warrant or guarantee the driver's additional OT/ET as result of the change as allowed by the supervisor. • Drivers offered OT/ET hours shall be notified at least twenty four (24) hours in advance or as soon as possible of the scheduled trip. Those drivers not given an advance notification of twenty-four (24) hours and who do not accept the trip shall not be charged the OT/ET hours that was offered the driver. • Drivers shall have the opportunity to sign up for OT/ET at the beginning of each semester, each school year. c. A probationary driver shall not be offered or charged OT/ET assignments involving runs inside or outside the District unless all seniority drivers refuse the trip. d. Unposted trips resulting from last minute requests received by the transportation office that involve OT/ET shall be assigned to the next available driver on the OT/ET list. The driver(s) that accept these hours will then be charged hours worked. e. Early dismissals shall not be charged to OT/ET if part of the driver's own package. f. Meal reimbursement shall be defined as follows: • Over three (3) but less than eight (8) hours $5.00 Breakfast or Lunch. • Over eight (8) hours Field Trip $5.00 Breakfast and/or Lunch, $8.00 Dinner. • Overnight lodging plus all meals. • Proof of purchase must be submitted, actual cost will be paid up to a maximum as defined above. g. When a driver receives a parking ticket on a field trip due to no fault of his/her own, the Board will pay for it. h. OT/ET trips for bus drivers that begin after the end of their normal day shall be paid overtime. OT/ET trips beginning prior to or at the end of the normal workday for five and one-half (5-1/2) hour drivers shall not be paid overtime until two and one-half (2-1/2) additional hours have elapsed.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement