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ROTATION OF OVERTIME OPPORTUNITIES. SECTION 1. Whenever practical, the Employer will rotate overtime opportunities among qualified full-time employees who normally perform the work that is being assigned for overtime. SECTION 2. Management will post, in the appropriate division, overtime lists biweekly on Wednesday following the end of the pay period. This list will contain the employee's name and total overtime worked as well as hours refused and unavailable during the two week pay period ending at 7:00 a.m. on Monday. The list will also include aggregate overtime hours for the current record-keeping period (see Section 3 below) including hours worked, refused, and unavailable in addition to hours worked in the other divisions or departments. SECTION 3. Overtime will be offered to the full-time employees within the division who, on the roster, have the fewest aggregate hours worked and refused among those within the division who are qualified and normally perform the work that is being assigned for overtime. Overtime among such employees shall be kept within sixteen (16) hours, if possible. Unless otherwise agreed upon, aggregate overtime hours worked and refused among employees shall be calculated in a one (1) year period beginning May 1 and ending April 30 of each year. A. Under normal conditions, overtime shall be offered: 1st - by division for those qualified based on division overtime 2nd - by department for those qualified based on division overtime 3rd - City wide based on total overtime. B. Snow Operations When snow or ice removal operations are necessary on an around-the-clock basis, work schedules will be rearranged accordingly. Employees working snow operations will generally be scheduled to a working shift between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. or between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a. m. The first eight (8) hours worked during the twenty-four (24) hour period beginning at 7:00 a. m. of all regularly scheduled work days will be paid at straight time hourly rates. Overtime rates will be applied to all hours worked in excess of eight (8) in the twenty-four (24) hour period beginning at 7:00 a.m. of all regularly scheduled work days. The City will guarantee payment of a minimum of eight (8) hours straight time pay for each of the first five (5) twenty-four (24) hour periods in the employee’s regularly scheduled work week. In order to facilitate the transition for those assigned to the 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. shift, the hours for the initial day of snow operations may be varied as appropriate. Snow operations overtime shall be offered: 1st- by division for those employees who can perform snow removal based on division overtime. 2nd- by department for those who can perform snow removal based on division overtime. 3rd- City wide for those employees who can perform snow removal based on total overtime. Work during snow operations shall be subject to the following restrictions: 1) Maximum sixteen (16) hours with minimum of six (6) hours off duty. 2) The City reserves the right to send an employee home from his/her regular shift a) to comply with the sixteen (16) hour requirement b) in anticipation of having the employee work a later shift. In the event the employee is not required to work the later shift, the City will guarantee payment of his/her normal shift hours. If a number of bargaining unit employees are sent home in anticipation of working a later shift but not all of that number of bargaining unit employees are required to work a later shift, those who actually do work the later shift will be paid the overtime rate for all hours actually worked. 3) During snow operations, the City reserves the right to vary the requirements under Section 3-A and 3-B in order to properly staff division operations in a continuing twenty- four (24) hour basis. The City will, however, try to maintain the overtime equalization as much as practical. C. Court Overtime Overtime for bargaining unit employees supervising community service work release personnel from the Fairfield Municipal Court shall be known as "court overtime". Qualified full-time bargaining unit employees may voluntarily elect to participate in court overtime by signing a volunteer sign-up list to be circulated among department/division personnel. City departments and/or divisions to be utilized for court overtime shall be determined by management. Court overtime offered to bargaining unit members by management shall be offered to those full-time employees on the volunteer sign-up list on a rotating basis within the department or division selected for the court overtime. Employees who work or refuse court overtime under this subsection shall not be charged on the overtime list within their department or division under Section 2, above. Supervision of community work release personnel from the Fairfield Municipal Court may be performed by Court personnel at the discretion of the Court. SECTION 4. Where there are errors in the distribution of overtime opportunities, the Employer will be given one opportunity to correct the error by granting to any member whose rights were violated the next opportunity to overtime within his or her overtime group. SECTION 5. If any employee cannot be contacted, he/she shall be charged with the overtime hours offered and the attempt to contact shall be recorded. SECTION 6. If the low houred person, according to the roster, is on his/her regularly scheduled day off, he/she will be given the opportunity to work the complete eight (8) hour shift, provided that the overtime is available. SECTION 7. No employee will be considered for overtime of a non-emergency nature who is on approved leave. SECTION 8. In the case of an emergency declared by the City Manager, an employee who is able to work shall not refuse overtime offered.

ROTATION OF OVERTIME OPPORTUNITIES. SECTION Section 1. : Whenever practical, the Employer City will rotate overtime opportunities among qualified full-time employees who normally perform the work that is being assigned for overtime. SECTION Section 2. Management : The Department Head will post, in the appropriate division, supply weekly overtime lists biweekly to the Union on Wednesday following the end Friday of the pay periodeach week. This The list will contain the employee's name and total overtime worked as well as hours refused and unavailable during the two week pay period ending at from 7:01 a.m. Monday to 7:00 a.m. on the following Monday. The list Union will also include aggregate post information weekly in each department showing overtime hours for worked by each employee. The Department Head will post overtime information on a monthly basis. Overtime is to be kept within sixteen (16) hours, if possible, in each sub-classification and is to be offered to employees with the current record-keeping period (see Section 3 below) including hours worked, refused, and unavailable in addition to hours worked in the other divisions or departmentslowest number of hours. SECTION Section 3. : Overtime will be offered to the full-time non-probationary employees within the division department or unit who, on the roster, have the fewest aggregate hours worked and refused among those within the division who are qualified and normally to perform the work that is being assigned for overtime. Overtime among such employees shall be kept within sixteen (16) hours, if possible. Unless otherwise agreed upon, aggregate overtime hours worked and refused among employees shall be calculated in a one (1) year period beginning May 1 and ending April 30 of each yearassigned. A. Under normal conditions, overtime shall be offeredSection 4: 1st - by division for those qualified based on division overtime 2nd - by department for those qualified based on division overtime 3rd - City wide based on total overtime. B. Snow Operations When snow or ice removal operations are necessary on an around-the-clock basis, work schedules will be rearranged accordingly. Employees working snow operations will generally be scheduled to a working shift between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. or between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a. m. The first eight (8) hours worked during the twenty-four (24) hour period beginning at 7:00 a. m. of all regularly scheduled work days will be paid at straight time hourly rates. Overtime rates will be applied to all hours worked in excess of eight (8) in the twenty-four (24) hour period beginning at 7:00 a.m. of all regularly scheduled work days. The City will guarantee payment of a minimum of eight (8) hours straight time pay for each of the first five (5) twenty-four (24) hour periods in the employee’s regularly scheduled work week. In order to facilitate the transition for those assigned to the 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. shift, the hours for the initial day of snow operations may be varied as appropriate. Snow operations overtime shall be offered: 1st- by division for those employees who can perform snow removal based on division overtime. 2nd- by department for those who can perform snow removal based on division overtime. 3rd- City wide for those employees who can perform snow removal based on total overtime. Work during snow operations shall be subject to the following restrictions: 1) Maximum sixteen (16) hours with minimum of six (6) hours off duty. 2) The City reserves the right to send an employee home from his/her regular shift a) to comply with the sixteen (16) hour requirement b) in anticipation of having the employee work a later shift. In the event the employee is not required to work the later shift, the City will guarantee payment of his/her normal shift hours. If a number of bargaining unit employees are sent home in anticipation of working a later shift but not all of that number of bargaining unit employees are required to work a later shift, those who actually do work the later shift will be paid the overtime rate for all hours actually worked. 3) During snow operations, the City reserves the right to vary the requirements under Section 3-A and 3-B in order to properly staff division operations in a continuing twenty- four (24) hour basis. The City will, however, try to maintain the overtime equalization as much as practical. C. Court Overtime Overtime for bargaining unit employees supervising community service work release personnel from the Fairfield Municipal Court shall be known as "court overtime". Qualified full-time bargaining unit employees may voluntarily elect to participate in court overtime by signing a volunteer sign-up list to be circulated among department/division personnel. City departments and/or divisions to be utilized for court overtime shall be determined by management. Court overtime offered to bargaining unit members by management shall be offered to those full-time employees on the volunteer sign-up list on a rotating basis within the department or division selected for the court overtime. Employees who work or refuse court overtime under this subsection shall not be charged on the overtime list within their department or division under Section 2, above. Supervision of community work release personnel from the Fairfield Municipal Court may be performed by Court personnel at the discretion of the Court. SECTION 4. Where there are errors in the distribution of overtime opportunities, the Employer City will be given one opportunity to correct the error by granting to any member whose rights were violated the next opportunity to overtime within his or her overtime group. SECTION Section 5. : If any an employee cannot be contacted, he/she he shall not be charged with the overtime hours offered and offered, but the attempt to contact shall be recorded. SECTION Section 6. : If the low low-houred personman, according to the roster, is on his/her his regularly scheduled day off, he/she he will be given the opportunity to work the complete eight (8) hour shift, provided that the overtime is available. SECTION Section 7. : No employee will be considered for overtime of a non-emergency nature who is on approved vacation, holiday, or sick leave. SECTION Section 8: No employee's regular schedule will be altered to avoid the payment of overtime. Section 9: An employee may elect to take compensatory time off in lieu of overtime pay. In Compensatory time earned must be used within one hundred eighty (180) days. Compensatory time will be paid out in the case first pay period of an emergency declared by June and in the City Managerfirst pay period of December. If the employee does not take the compensatory time off within the prescribed time limit, an employee who is able to work shall not refuse he will be paid for the overtime offeredworked in the next following pay period.