(a) Administration. In any emergency, a department head may prescribe, with the approval of the Mayor or the department director, reasonable periods of overtime work to meet operational needs. Such overtime shall be reported and justified as required by the Mayor.
(b) Compensation. All full-time covered employees who are paid on an hourly rate basis and who have worked in excess of a normal forty-hour work week, or who have worked in excess of eight hours in a twenty-four hour period, shall be paid an hourly rate of one and one- half times their hourly rate for each hour of excess time. In computing the normal hours, time taken off during the week shall be deducted, unless such time is authorized sick leave. Unworked minimum call-out hours shall not apply to the computation, but an employee shall be compensated at the highest of either actual hours worked or minimum call-out hours. Work on scheduled holidays, if requested and/or approved by the department head, shall be paid at double time rate for each hour worked.
(c) Minimum Call-Out Hours for Employees. Hourly employees of the Division of Water and Sanitary Sewers and the Division of Streets and Drainage of the Department of Public Service shall be guaranteed a minimum of four hours pay for each response to an emergency call- out made by the Director of Public Service, the Superintendent of Roads and Parks or the Superintendent of Utilities.
(Ord. 27-85. Passed 6-10-85; Ord. 44-90. Passed 4-23-90; Ord. 131-91. Passed 12-23-91; Ord. 47-16. Passed 4-11-16.)