181.31 SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYEES WITHIN THE POLICE DIVISION AND HAMILTON MUNICIPAL COURT.
Notwithstanding the provisions set forth in this chapter and in place of existing provisions of this chapter, classified employees serving in the positions of Police Civilian Desk Officer, Police Public Safety Communications Manager and Administrative Specialist II (Police Division), and employees serving in the unclassified positions of Municipal Court Warrant Officer/Bailiff and Deputy Bailiff shall be granted the following special benefits:
(a) Premium Compensation: Third shift Police Civilian Desk Officers (excluding the Police Public Safety Communications Manager and Administrative Specialist II (Police Division) classifications) shall receive time and one-quarter pay for Saturday as part of his/her regularly scheduled work week.
(b) Holidays/Holiday Premium Compensation:
(1) Police Public Safety Communications Manager and Administrative Specialist II (Police Division) classified employees and the Municipal Court Warrant Officer/Bailiff unclassified employees shall take off as holidays the holidays as otherwise designated in Section 181.27, and are excluded from the holiday provisions set forth hereafter.
(2) Police Civilian Desk Officer classified employees who work the following six designated holidays: New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day shall, at their option, be paid either:
A. Two and one-half times the regular rate of pay and receive no time off for the holiday, or
B. One and one-half times the regular rate of pay and an additional eight hours compensatory time off at some future date.
(c) Overtime Compensation/Compensatory Leave Time:
(1) Police Public Safety Communications Manager and the Administrative Specialist II (Police Division) classified employees are exempt from overtime compensation.
(2) For hours worked in excess of forty hours per week, Police Civilian Desk Officer classified employees shall receive one and one-half times the regular hourly rate of pay, or one and one-half hours of time off work as compensatory leave.
(3) Police Civilian Desk Officer classified employees may accumulate up to eighty hours of compensatory leave time. No such employee may carry over more than eighty hours of compensatory leave time from one calendar year into the following calendar year. The employee shall receive pay for all compensatory leave time in excess of eighty hours at year-end which cannot be carried over by operation of this provision.
(4) All compensatory time must be approved in advance by the Police Chief.
(d) Court Time: For each day that an off-duty Police Civilian Desk Officer, Police Public Safety Communications Manager or Administrative Specialist II (Police Division) classified employee is required to appear in court, the employee shall be paid in the same manner as sworn police officers as set forth in the current Collective Bargaining Agreement between the City and Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 38. (Ord. 2004-1-3. Passed 1-14-04.)