(a) Work Week Scheduled Hours. For the purpose of this section, a work day for employees other than shift employees within the Department of Fire shall normally consist of 8 scheduled consecutive hours in a 24-hour period commencing with the start of a shift. A normal work week for full-time employees, excluding shift employees within the Department of Fire, shall normally consist of 40 scheduled hours within a calendar week. Schedule requirements may, on occasion, result in a shift assignment wherein a member has 8 off hours separating 2 scheduled work days. Such shift assignments shall be considered as separate work days and paid at straight time rates, where such shift assignment is part of a standard shift schedule or results from changing to a new schedule.
(b) Call-out. A non-bargaining unit employee who is called in to work at a time which does not abut his or her scheduled work hours shall receive call-out pay consistent with the provisions delineated in the collective bargaining agreement between the City and the Fraternal Order of Police, Ohio Labor Council, Inc. Call-out for employees within the Department of Fire is addressed under Chapter 246 of the codified ordinances of the City.
(c) Compensation. Any duty hours in excess of 40 hours in a work week shall constitute overtime for overtime eligible employees, excluding shift employees within the Department of Fire. Compensable time (holidays, vacation days, compensatory days, sick days and actual duty hours) shall be considered as time worked for the purpose of computing overtime. Overtime shall be compensated at the following rates as applicable:
(1) Time and one-half for all hours of duty in excess of 8 in one work day, or in excess of 40 in a work week.
(2) Double time for all hours on-duty in excess of 12 consecutive hours in a work day.
(3) Double time for hours worked during scheduled vacation when an employee is called out and required to report to work by the employer. In such case, the employee shall receive the double time for a minimum of 4 hours or actual hours worked, whichever is greater.
(d) Compensatory Time. At their option, full-time employees may elect to take overtime in the form of pay or compensatory time off. Employees may not accrue nor use more than 90 hours of compensatory time off at any one time or in any one calendar year. Compensatory time off shall be scheduled in advance at the request of the employee, subject to the approval of the department head, and in consideration of operational and staffing needs.
(e) Double Pay. Premium or overtime compensation shall not be paid more than once for the same hours worked.
(f) "Shift employee," within the Department of Fire, means an employee who is regularly scheduled to work a 24-hour work day or shift.
(Ord. 128-94. Passed 10-24-94; Ord. 113-03. Passed 7-14-03.)