(A) Elected officers, the executive officer, and department heads are not eligible for compensatory time.
(B) Any employee who agrees to receive compensatory time off in lieu of overtime must complete a compensatory time agreement form. The department head should contact the executive officer’s office to get a comp time agreement form.
(C) Compensatory time should be kept to a minimum.
(D) Non-exempt employees of the city (see provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act - FLSA) shall receive compensatory time off in lieu of overtime payment for all time authorized and actually worked in excess of 40 hours in a work week at a rate of one and one-half times the employee’s hourly base rate of pay. (For purposes of calculating overtime holidays will be included as time worked.)
(E) Non-exempt employees can take compensatory time off after a proper request has been submitted and approved by the employee’s supervisor or department head. Compensatory time must be used within six months from the pay period in which it was accrued. In cases where the compensatory time off cannot be scheduled within the six months, he or she will be granted the time off as soon as possible.
(F) (1) The city may, at any time, choose to pay out all compensatory time to the employees.
(2) The employee may, at any time, request to have all or part of his or her accumulated compensatory time paid to him or her, but, at no time, may an employee have accrued compensatory time in excess of 35 hours.
(3) All accrued compensatory time over 35 hours shall be paid to the employee at the end of the next ensuing pay period.
(Ord. 2013-7, passed 8-28-2013; Ord. 2019-25, passed 5-13-2020)