Common use of Work Hours and Overtime Clause in Contracts

Work Hours and Overtime. Represented employees are exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act. As such, in addition to performing work during normal business hours of the City, they devote whatever time is necessary to accomplish the work of their offices without eligibility to accrue compensatory time or to be paid overtime compensation. As a result, these employees will not have to account for their work time on an hourly basis and will only need to account for each full day of absence that occurs on a regularly scheduled work day. Employees are expected to work full-time, with full-time being defined as a minimum of 80 hours per payroll period. Regardless of their exempt status, employees will need to account for absences based on the work schedule established for the employee’s work unit. Where operationally possible, the Department may allow, with approval of the Fire Chief, an employee to “flex” his/her full-time work schedule if he/she is required to work unscheduled hours either during the employee’s work week or on the employee’s regularly scheduled day(s) off. Flextime is a scheduling arrangement that permits variations in an employee’s starting and departure times or days worked, but does not change the overall total number of hours accounted for in a fiscal year. Employees are expected to coordinate flextime use with the Fire Chief.