Employees shall be eligible to select compensatory time off in lieu of being paid overtime hours earned under the following terms and conditions:
(A) The compensatory time off an employee may accumulate shall be capped at 60 hours. Beyond this 60 hour cap, the employee must be paid earned overtime and may not select compensatory time off in lieu thereof.
(B) During the first payroll of each December, all accumulated unused compensatory time off for the previous 12 month period shall be paid to the employee at their appropriate rate of pay, during the period of time in which the time was earned, not inclusive of any subsequent pay rate increases experienced subsequent thereto, at the end of that previous 12 month period, thereby establishing a zero balance in compensatory time off every December 1. Such payment shall be issued to the employee during the month of December.
(C) Compensatory time shall be calculated at the rate of one and one-half hour for each hour actually worked over 40 hours in a work week or at the rate of straight time for each hour actually worked over 35 hours in a work week but less than 40.
(D) Requests to use compensatory time shall not be unreasonably denied, and such approval/disapproval shall be based on manpower needs of the Department and other relevant prevailing circumstances at the time.
(E) Employees may use the accrued time in increments of hours only. No use of fractions of hours shall be permitted.
(Ord. passed 11-28-2011; Res. 2015-11, passed 9-24-2015)